"At lunch, my fortune is short / and spelled out in blue: You will live, // it said, a lifetime of love. It must have / been for you," writes Renée Ashley in "Dear Okla," her MAYDAY Magazine tribute poem to Okla Elliot who recently and...
READ MOREMFA Literary Translation faulty member Idra Novey has won the $100,000 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature! Read more at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Idra Novey is the author of the debut novel Ways to Disappear, winner of the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize and a New York Times Editors’...
READ MOREScott Wordsman, at the Colorado Review, writes the following about FDU MFA Poetry and Literary Translation faculty member H. L. Hix's American Anger: "What makes this piece satisfying and rhetorically successful extends beyond Hix’s diction and wit; what flatters is the poet’s unerring command over his subject...
READ MOREPoet, musician, and FDU MFA alum Eric Paul interviews MFA poetry faculty Renee Ashley at Hypertext. Renee writes: "Because you’re a lyricist and vocalist, you undoubtedly associate (consciously or unconsciously) the writing with performance and the public. That’s enough to get anyone’s blood to boil. I, on the...
READ MORE"Just how well known the fate of Roger Casement is is debatable — and this, I discovered during three weeks in Ireland spent on his trail this year, is true of nearly all things Casement. Perhaps more than any other figure associated with the 1916...
READ MOREVerse Daily features "Spindle, Lathe" from FDU MFA faculty member Renée Ashley's The View from the Body (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). The poem begins: Thirst rose in her from a sitting position. There was would-this and would-that. Read more at Verse Daily. The View from the Body is available with Black Lawrence Press. Renée...
READ MOREFairleigh Dickinson University MFA Creative Writing Director René Steinke has been named a Guggenheim Fellow! René Steinke is the author of three novels, The Fires, Holy Skirts, and Friendswood. Read more about her and this award via the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Congratulations, René! Fellow: Awarded 2016 Field of Study: Fiction Competition: US & Canada Website: http://www.renesteinke.net/about/ Are...
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