Ross Gay receives an award for his outstanding community service
| Ross Gay receives an award for his outstanding community service from The Commission on Multicultural Understanding (COMU) at Indiana University. In particular he is being honored for his work with the Bloomington Community Orchard |
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Tony Ardizzone receives the Trustees Teaching Award
| Tony Ardizzone receives the Trustees Teaching Award from the English Department. The Trustees Teaching Award is focused especially on excellence in the classroom, and the record of classroom excellence from these colleagues is consistent and inspiring. Tony, Ed, and Rae are innovative, rigorous, charismatic, and dedicated teachers. It is a pleasure to recognize their excellence. I hope you'll join me in congratulating them. |
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The MFA Creative Writing Program welcomes Adrian Matejka as Visiting Assistant Professor for Fall 2012-13
| Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in California and Indiana. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden, won the 2002 New York / New England Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. His next book, The Big Smoke, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2013. He is is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. |
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Kerri Websters book won the 2011 Iowa Prize
| Kerri Webster's (MFA, 1999) book won the 2011 Iowa Prize. Grand & Arsenal will be published by University of Iowa Press in 2012. |
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MFA faculty Maurice Manning wins a Guggenheim
| Congratulations to Maurice Manning for winning a Guggenheim this year. Here's a news release about the fellowship. Maurice will spend the next year working on his fifth book of poetry. |
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MFA faculty Ross Gay publishes "Bringing the Shovel Down"
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Joe Hiland wins Intro Journals Award
| Congratuations to Joe Hiland (MFA 2013) for winning an AWP Intro Journals Award in fiction this year. His story, "When the Green Went Away," will be published in Colorado Review. The contest was judged by Darrin Doyle. |
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Teitman (MFA 2010) wins Poulin Prize
Congratulations to Ryan Teitman (MFA 2010) who won the 2011 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for his first collection of poems, Litany for the City. Jane Hirshfield selected this manuscript from 16 finalists and will write a Foreword to the published collection. Teitman will receive a $1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in March, 2012, in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series.
An annual competition, the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is open to poets who have yet to publish a full-length-book collection of poetry. |
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Julia Story (MFA '04) wins Zacharis First Book Award
Congratulations to Julia Story (MFA '04) for winning the twentieth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her prose poetry collection Post Moxie: Poems (Sarabande Books, 2010). The $1,500 award, named after Emerson College's former president, honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer. Story had previously won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for the same collection.
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Neil Perry (MFA '08) wins 2011 APR/Honickman First Book Prize
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