FDU MFA alumna Flower Conroy has been named Key West Poet Laureate. Congratulations, Flower! Flower Conroy is the author of Facts About Snakes & Hearts, winner of Heavy Feather Press’ Chapbook Contest; The Awful Suicidal Swans; and Escape to Nowhere. Her poetry’s been nominated…
READ MORE“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 MOREWitness off-duty Elvis, Miss Atomic at home & words as trapeze artists. Explore ghosts in the ecotone, hasty breakups & why reproduction has so many o’s. Discover the saltshaker that’s buried in the microwave, a sci-fi spacesuit’s metallic silver & that desert bone. Edited &…
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Piscataway House Publications is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of As an Alien in a Land of Promise, a hybrid work of poetry and journalism by Hank Kalet, with photos by Sherry Rubel. The book is due in September. The book chronicles the lives…
READ MORETwo of FDU MFA alum Jin Cordaro’s poems have been published in Issue 23 of Smartish Pace. In “I Go Back to the Night I Was Named,” Jin writes, “Newborn baby on your father’s belly, / curled comma of addition.” Read more in Issue 23…
READ MOREThis summer, Philadelphia Stories published FDU MFA candidate Aminah Abutayeb’s poem, “The Thing About My Ears Is.” Congratulations, Aminah! She writes: pseudo- sounds mask the noticeable sound—phone rings but just an air conditioner. The worst sound Read more at Philadelphia Stories. Aminah Abutayeb is a full-time MFA candidate…
READ MORECreative Writing MFA alum Letisia Cruz’s poetry comic, “The Ichthyologist,” is forthcoming in Ink Brick no. 5. Pre-order here. Congratulations, Letisia! Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is enthralled by nature and the acute connection to form associated with ink illustration. Her visual vocabulary…
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