Thomas E. Kennedy – Creative Writing MFA at Fairleigh Dickinson University

MFA Alum Jessie Vail Aufiery’s Edited Collection Paris, Etc. Published by Serving House Books

PARIS, ETC.: WRITING AND ILLUSTRATIONS is a collection of poems, stories and essays that explore what Paris means to writers who have visited and lived in this fascinating city. These are works that are jubilant, despondent, flippant, stuck, liberated, devastated, bored, solitary, joyous, in love—that...

08 Mar 2016 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Books, faculty news, publications, Worth Reading no comments

MFA Faculty Thomas E. Kennedy Receives This Year’s Dan Turèll Medal

P R E S S R E L E A S E FROM THE DAN TURÈLL SOCIETY The Dan Turèll Medal 2016 to ambassador of Danish literature in the English-speaking world Author and Translator Thomas E. Kennedy receives this year’s Dan Turèll Medal. In 1977 in the poetry collection,...

07 Feb 2016 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Books, Current Events, Current News, Faculty Books, faculty news, publications, Worth Reading no comments

Keyhole Publishes MFA Alum Tim Waldron’s “King Bro”

Keyhole publishes Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA alum Tim Waldron's story, "King Bro." Studying under Thomas E. Kennedy and Ellen Akins, "King Bro" was the first story he wrote as an FDU grad student. Tim writes: “Banana!” He said and started to swing. He pulled his fist back so far that...

02 Jan 2016 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Worth Reading no comments

Heather Lang, MFA Alum, on Love & Illusion in Las Vegas for The Literary Explorer

MFA Alum Heather Lang writes on Love & Illusion In Residential Las Vegas: An Exploration of a Poetic Life for The Literary Explorer, which is edited by FDU MFA faculty Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy. Within this hybrid personal essay/review, Heather explores love and...

16 Oct 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Book Reviews, faculty news, publications, Worth Reading no comments

A Review of “An Introduction: Dan Turèll + Halfdan E meets Thomas E. Kennedy”

The poetry CD An Introduction: Dan Turèll + Halfdan E meets Thomas E. Kennedy is reviewed in the current KYSO Flash: Issue 4 (Fall 2015). For a sample of the CD and the text of a Turèll poem in English and the four lithographs created for it...

10 Oct 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Book Reviews, faculty news, publications, Worth Reading no comments

FDU MFA Faculty Member Thomas E. Kennedy’s Essay In South Carolina Review

FDU MFA Faculty Member Thomas E. Kennedy has an essay in the South Carolina Review (Fall 2015). Kennedy's Essay, Negative Capability and John Cheever's "The Swimmer," is based on his presentation from the MFA Wroxton residency as well as on an interview-review, ”Kennedy in Copenhagen:...

05 Oct 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in faculty news, publications, Worth Reading no comments

FDU MFA Alum Bill Mesce Jr. on Second Chances & A Cold and Distant Place

FDU MFA Alum Bill Mesce Jr. on second chances: Every once in a great while an author is given a second chance to get a published piece of work right. Stephen King used the leverage of his phenomenal success to get Doubleday to republish his 1978 post-apocalyptic...

21 Sep 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Books, publications, Worth Reading no comments