Winter Open House January 9, 2010

Please join us for our winter open house on January 9, 2010. Spend the day on campus during our winter residency meeting MFA students and faculty while attending a writing workshop and lecture. The open house is free but pre-registration is required. Lunch provided. For further information contact Jacqueline Gens at jgens@nec.edu

More Updates from our Alumni

Jay Udall ('06) has won the 2009 New Mexico Book Award for his latest volume, The Welcome Table (University of New Mexico Press).


Joanna Penn Cooper's (09) chapbook *Mesmer* will be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2010. Joanna will also be reading in Brooklyn on December 12th in
the Bushwick Reading Series. Information about the event can be found here and on Facebook..:

Joanna's poetry has appeared in Boog City, elimae, and Scapegoat Review; her critical work in MELUS, The Cortland Review, and Pleiades. In addition to her MFA from New England College, she holds a PhD in American literature from Temple University. A Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University, Joanna lives in New York City.

Christina Lovin (’04) has been named the first Poet-in-Residence at Connemara, the Flat Rock, North Carolina, home of poet Carl Sandburg. Connemara was given to the National Park Service following Sandburg’s death in 1968. The Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara have initiated the writer-in-residence program to fulfill the wishes of Sandburg’s late wife, Paula. The residency includes a three-week stay at the historic homestead, along with a $1500 stipend. Lovin and Sandburg are both natives of Galesburg, Illinois, and share a Swedish heritage (Lovin’s father was Swedish, his paternal grandparents and mother having immigrated from Sweden in the mid-to-late 1800’s). “I grew up knowing that a famous poet was from my town and that he, too, was Swedish. I remember the city-wide collection of pennies by school children in the late 1950’s (the Penny Parade) to raise money to renovate Sandburg’s home on Third Street.” More information: http://www.nps.gov/carl/parknews/carl-sandburg-writer-in-residence.htm.

News from Janet Barry '07

Janet Barry (07) has had work published in Aegis, Entelechy International, Off the Coast, November 3rd Club, and the anthology, Eating her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, by Ragged Sky Press.

Several poems soon to appear include “Roadkill Beautiful” in Canary, “Destination” in Naugatuck River Review, and “Blood Moon” and “Ossuary” in Compass Rose.

Her poem, “Winter Barn”, received a 2009 Pushcart nomination.

Join us at the Boston Book Festival, October 24

The MFA program in poetry will be one of the exhibitors at the Boston Book Festival in Copley Square on Saturday, October 24 from 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. Stop by and visit booth #27, if you are in the neighborhood.

Next Open House January 9, 2010

Want to experience an MFA program first hand?

Attend our next Open House:
Saturday, January 9, 2010
10:00 AM-6:00 PM

Join us for a writing workshop with program director, Jim Harms, lectures, a reading and meet
our faculty & students. All for free during our winter residency.

Pre-registration required: Contact Jacqueline Gens
at jgens@nec.edu or 603-219-9172.

Nikoletta Nousiopoulis (09)

Nikoletta Nousiopoulis (09) will be one of the featured readers at the Martha's Vineyard Mass Poetry Festival October 15, 2009 at the Louisa Gould Gallery beginning at 7:30 PM.

Her manuscript, All the Dead Goats, has been accepted for publication by Little Red Tree Press scheduled for release in January 2010. Scroll down to older posts from the summer 2009 residency to view a video of her reading from the manuscript.

Karen Dietrich (08) Recent Publications

Karen Dietrich (08) has work in the following publications:

Poetry:
"Furnace Room," "Source," and "This is What I Know So Far" appear in the October 2009 issue of Pank Magazine.

"Revision" appears in the Fall 2009 issue of The Dirty Napkin.
Karen's manuscript was a finalist for the Keystone Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press.

Nonfiction:
A story, "Bread and Butter," appears in the online journal Monkeybicycle.

Ilya Kaminsky Wins Levinson Prize

Core faculty mentor at New England College, Ilya Kaminsky, has won the 2009 Levinson Prize. Founded in 1914, previous prize winners read like a who's who in poetry. Congratulations, once again, Ilya!

Ivy Page (09) Announces New Literary Journal--OVS Magazine

Ivy Page (09) in collaboration with Stephen Page would like to
introduce, OVS Magazine (Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine)

OVS Magazine is an online and (soon-to-be) print literary journal
based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, edited by staff and
guest authors. We are now accepting submissions for our first edition
coming in December of 2009! Submission deadline is November 20th.
http://www.ovsmag.com/index.html


Editors/Guest Editors:

Ivy Page, Poet

Stephen Page, Web Designer/Poet

Elizabeth Kiser, Writer

Beth Page, Illustrator/Designer

Cinnamon Stuckey (09), Poet/Editor



Maxine Kumine has graciously agreed to be our featured poet for our first
issue!

Send us your art, your poetry, and even your art that goes with your
poetry, and all you have poured into it! We want to hear from
everyone. So, it doesn't matter if you haven't published before, or
if you are an old pro. It doesn't matter to us how many galleries you
have hung in. We just want great work that makes us feel what you are
expressing.

Terry Lucas (’08) recent and upcoming work

Terry Lucas (08) recently had work published in the September issue of Poets and Artists and in Naugatuck River Review. He also has work upcoming in hotmetalpress and Ocho. His review of Shaindel Beers’ A Brief History of Time can be read at www.thewideningspell.blogspot.com

Alumni Reading at Forbes Library in Northampton,MA on September 26

New England College MFA Program in Poetry Alumni Reading at the Forbes Library community room in Northampton, MA

WHEN: Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM

WHERE: 
Forbes Library 
20 West St 
Northampton, MA 01060-3798 
(413) 587-1011

Please join us for a fun event and supper afterwards. Bring your friends........

Jacqueline Gens, Co-director 
MFA Program in Poetry 
New England College 
98 Bridge Street 
Henniker, NH 03242 
603-219-9172 (cell)

More News

Jay Rubin (07) and Nikoletta Nousiopoulos (11)  have poems in 2River View with recordings of their featured poems....Check out great photos by Louis Seigal of the September 11 reading at Upstairs at Erikas. including this photo of MFA faculty Malena Morling.

New Poets for Peace 9/11 Remembrance Event at Upstairs at Erikas

Readings & Silent Auction: Remembering those lost and celebrating those still with us . The event was held on Friday, September 11th in a private loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. *Featured Readings Included: Joan Larkin, Nick Flynn, Cindy Cruz, Bruce Covey Malena Morling, Douglas Unger and more. *Silent Auction Items Included: Private dinner for 4 prepared by renowned chef, Private yoga class with top yoga instructor, cooking lessons of any type you'd like, such as gourment, healthy, vegatarian, simple quick easy meals, and your choice of setting–meaning just for you or a cooking/dinner party, as well as other unique items. Music by Warren Malone.

photo credit; Louis Seigal

Francesco Levato (11) Recent and Forthcoming Publications & Events

Recent Publications

Scapegoat Review, Summer 2009

Drunken Boat, Issue 10, Spring 2009
Visual Poetics: Video Poetry
curated by Francesco Levato

Big Bridge

Seven Corners
featured poet, August 8, 2009

Upcoming readings/lectures/events

Series A Conversations Mini-Conference, September 19, 2009

New Media Poetics: Focus on Film

This panel explores the intersection of poetic and cinematic expression and the role of poets and filmmakers in interdisciplinary collaborative relationships. The panel will open with a 30 minute film screening of various forms of the genre, followed by a discussion featuring poets/filmmakers Eric Gelehrter, Kurt Heintz, Francesco Levato, Julia Miller, and Nate Slawson. Moderated by Francesco Levato.

Binary: A Pairing of Opposite States
Exhibition: Friday, October 9 – Saturday, November 7, 2009.
Opening reception: Friday, October 9, 2009 - 6 p.m. - midnight.

The binary switch has two states: off and on, or negative and positive. This is how computers work; everything that computers do boils down to the binary switch being in the negative or positive position. Artists also operate in modes of being switched on and off, especially when artists enter a collaborative relationship where their inspirations, methods and mediums perform a push/pull on each other resulting in mixed medias, hybrids, and mash-ups.

With an interactive video installation by Francesco Levato in which poetic texts and animated imagery are dynamically generated via SMS text messaging by gallery viewers.

Now Conference on Innovative Literature, October 14, 2009

War Rug: New Media Poetics (film)


Series A
November 4, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Francesco Levato, Jorge Sanchez


Rockpile, November 19, 2009
The Hideout, CHICAGO ROCKPILE PERFORMANCE and Jazz and Poetry Fest
Location: The Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia Chicago, Il 60622 773.227.4433 http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
7:00 am to 11:00 am
With The Spider Trio and Bob Malone Band, David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Art Lange, Ed Roberson, Dan Godston, Larry Sawyer, Francesco Levato, Theresa Carrion and more

Admission: $8
http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/

Carol Frost Interview

Check out Carol Frost's recent online interview on Smartish Place.. Carol is core faculty in the MFA program in Poetry at New England College.

Peter Res (10)

Peter Res' (10) chapbook, Vibrant Ghost, is online at Differentia Press

About Vibrant Ghost

Vibrant Ghost was born out of the poverty of illness. In particular, it is meant as an emotional/philosophical/poetic offering to my beloved mother’s struggle with shingles in the throat and mouth, so that her pain might end. The collection was compiled at 4 am on July 18th, partly of a new series of poems written in almost complete isolation (“Neon Soliloquies”) along with a handful of haphazard musings on death and dream. July 4th to the 30th was a time of constant ER visits, failed prognoses, and harrowing probabilities for us. During this period, I spent any and all time I had away from care giving, in the dark comfort of my workspaces, to pen my reticent frustrations in poems and letters. What has surfaced is something altogether emergent.

Peter G Res

August 9, 2009

Old Tappan, New Jersey

4:04 A.M.