The MFA at Western State Colorado University
This past Saturday, May 11, saw the second graduating cohort from the WSCU MFA. Last year we had one graduate from the Poetry Concentration, Susan Spear; this year we have three: Dave Hinchliffe, Malinda Miller and Laura Stuckey. Congratulations to all three, who have done superb work. Malinda (on the left in the photo below)… Continue reading
This summer’s “Writing the Rockies” conference schedule is now posted here. This conference takes place during the final weekend of the WSCU MFA summer residency, Th. July 25 — Sun. July 28, in Gunnison. Each year at the conference, the WSCU poetry concentration sponsors a Symposium on Poetry Criticism, which features poets who write criticism… Continue reading
This is the informational email blast we send out each year. Please feel free to link to it or copy and send it around to prospective students and anyone who else who may have an interest in the program. We can’t attach the syllabi and informational packet here, but the syllabi are elsewhere on this… Continue reading
Don’t Just Sit There, Vol. 2.2 is just out. This journal is edited by David J. Rothman, the Poetry Concentration Director at WSCU’s MFA, with Martha Kalin as Associate Editor (and she did most of the work….). It features poets and writers from Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where Rothman also teaches, and therefore also… Continue reading
Feb. 1 / This just in from Dave Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate and WSCU Poetry Concentration Advisory Board Member. We asked him for a summary of what he’s been up to, and it’s prodigious. What a great year he’s had — we are tremendously fortunate to have him working with us! *** This has been… Continue reading
Great news from WSCU Professor Ernest Hilbert about the release of his recording. *** What would it sound like if a book of poetry had its own musical score, like a film, written specifically to match the poems word for word and line for line? In 2009, after the release of his book Sixty Sonnets,… Continue reading
Jan. 7, 2013 / BIG NEWS! Thanks to the very hard work of MFA Director Mark Todd, WSCU has now decided to allow us to offer MFA courses (up to 9 credit hours total) to students who are not yet enrolled as degree candidates in our program. We haven’t yet decided which courses we will… Continue reading
Dec. 10 / Over the next several months, WSCU faculty will be participating in a number of exciting panels at conferences around the country. On March 6 – 9 AWP holds its annual enormous blowout conference, which takes place this year in Boston. David J. Rothman will Chair a panel there titled “’Money is a… Continue reading
Exciting News! Peter Bridges has joined the WSCU MFA in Poetry Advisory Board. We are quite fortunate in this. Peter was born in New Orleans in 1932 and was raised in Chicago. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. (in Slavic languages) from Columbia University. After two years’ enlisted service in the… Continue reading
To celebrate the publication of WSCU faculty Devid Yezzi’s new chapbook, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, from Exot Books, the Lori Bookstein Gallery will hold a reading and reception on November 17. The gallery is located at 138 10th Ave., in New York (between 18th and 19th), and the event will run from 5:30 to 7:00. Program… Continue reading
