New work from UA poetry candidate Scott Kenimond 🗡️🗡️🗡️
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New work from UA poetry candidate Scott Kenimond 🗡️🗡️🗡️
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One week since Riff’s… See you at the next one 🗣️🎵🎤
02.08.2025 13:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New prose poem — ‘Everyone Bowed Their Head And Prayed For God’s Blessing’ — from our inimitable Program Director @marybid.bsky.social in the latest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🙏⭐️
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Congratulations to alum Zach Peckham on his appointment as the Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence at @colbycollege.bsky.social ✨
He’ll he missed here in NEO, but we wish him all the best in his northward journey and look forward to seeing what he does at Colby.
TONIGHT!
26.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So many NEOMFA contributors in this issue 😍
25.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@marybid.bsky.social ‘s new novella-in-flash, ‘The Girl with the Black Lipstick,’ recently featured on @clmporg.bsky.social ‘s July roundup:
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Congratulations to alum Joseph Lewis on the publication of his debut horror novel, ‘The Girl Who Walked on Ice,’ out from Banyam Books. Such a pleasure to see a student’s thesis enter the world in print ✍️📚🍾
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This week! See you there.
21.07.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Read the latest from Program Director @marybid.bsky.social — new prose poetry at Unbroken Journal 📝💜
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An ecstatic & ekphrastic evening with Poetry candidate El Bentivegna & friends from @heightsarts.bsky.social for “Ekphrastacy: Visions in Monochrome”
We 💜 our literary scene; thanks to everyone who helped put yesterday’s event together.
Tonight!!!!! See you there.
17.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Poetry MFA candidate Michelle Duke spent a high-summer week at the @kenyonreview.bsky.social Writers Workshop, making literary connections & pushing her work into more vulnerable spaces. Can’t wait to read what she wrote there 💜
16.07.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join alum poet Carrie George tonight in Akron for the launch of her new chapbook, “Unbecoming,” winner of the 2024 Flume Press Chapbook Contest. She’ll be joined by a cast of local poets & alum at one of our favorite NEO venues 🎤📝🎵☕️
See you there!
RELEASE DAY! Faculty member & Program Director @marybid.bsky.social ‘s new novella of the 90s is out today from @blacklawrence.bsky.social
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Read CSU Poetry Center’s “No One Knows Their Blood Type” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, longlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Award:
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Playwriting faculty Mike Geither & current poetry candidate Kristen Tetzmann traveled to Mi’kmaq territory, PEI, to lead an eco-writing workshop this June with River Clyde Arts. Participants generated material around themes of climate change and activism, with a bonus birding excursion led by Mike.
03.07.2025 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join us in celebrating the publication of ‘22 alum Carrie George’s chapbook, “Unbecoming,” winner of Flume Press’s 2024 Chapbook Contest 🎉 🎉🎉
02.07.2025 13:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Current poetry MFA candidate El Bentivegna will be featured along with other local poets at “Ekphrastacy: Visions in Monochrome,” hosted by Heights Arts on Thursday, July 17th. 🖤🤍
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Tonight, folks!
26.06.2025 12:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CSU Poetry Center’s recent translation, “No One Knows Their Blood Type,” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and the collection “Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry,” edited by alum Noor Hindi, have both been long listed for the Palestine Book Award.
Congrats to our program friends & family ✨✨✨
Former faculty member Christopher Barzak's novella, "A Voice Calling," has been nominated for a 2025 Shirley Jackson Award!
Congratulations, Chris!
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Faculty member Hilary Plum's new novel "State Champ" from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social reviewed in the NYT!
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#statechamp #newyorktimes #bookreviews #heartbeatbill #protestnovel #newfiction
Great picnic read 🐜 from @literaryhub.bsky.social
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Class of '22 alum Isaiah Hunt guest-editing @crayfishmag.bsky.social 's upcoming FUTURES issue 🚀🚀🚀
30.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join @uakronpress.bsky.social next month on June 26, 4pm for readings by Jess Smith, Sarah Green, & Jennifer Moore 🎤📖✒️🎵
28.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Read an excerpt (@clereviewbooks.bsky.social) from faculty member Hilary Plum's new novel "State Champ," which came out May 13th from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
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Celebrate #WorldGothDay by pre-ordering our Program Director & faculty member Mary Biddinger's upcoming novella, "The Girl with the Black Lipstick," out 8 July 2025:
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Why not end your evening with this thoughtful essay on storytelling: aeon.co/essays/why-d...
22.05.2025 01:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats to Hilary Plum on the release of "State Champ." This new novel "cuts through the political rhetoric to explore the relationship between bodily autonomy & real freedom." Described as “ferocious, hilarious, slippery, & wise," it's on sale now @ bloomsbury.com!
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