Feb. 9 / Rothman to Read with Burger, Byrd and Doersch at Innisfree Poetry Bookshop and Cafe in Boulder on Feb. 16
Feb. 16 — The attached flyer says it all — please join us. Innisfree Reading, Feb. 16
Poetry with an Emphasis on Versecraft
The MFA at Western State Colorado University
Feb. 6 / Advisory Board Member Dave Mason’s Libretto of “The Scarlet Letter” Forthcoming from Red Hen Press
Presale Mailer – Scarlet Libretto Click on the link above to see the mailer on Dave Mason’s forthcoming libretto of The Scarlet Letter, to be published by Red Hen Press. The world premiere of the opera, with music by Lori Laitman, will take place in Denver with Colorado Opera in 2013 and will be one… Continue reading
Jan. 22 / Rothman to Appear on Dona Stein’s “The Poetry Show,” KRFC Fort Collins
David J. Rothman will be reading and discussing Western’s MFA in Poetry next Sunday, January 29, at 6 pm Mountain Time on KRFC from Fort Collins. The show runs for an hour and is hosted by Dona Stein, who has done as much for Colorado poetry as anyone around. You can listen here: http://www.krfcfm.org/programming/krfc-live-stream/
Jan. 16 / News from Marilyn Taylor
This just in from Marilyn Taylor, former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin and a member of our MFA Advisory Board…. Hello, friends– Thrilled to report that there’s a gorgeous new anthology of villanelles coming out very shortly from Random House’ “Everyman’s Library,” and I’m in it! And so is our Wisconsin friend Kate Sontag. Please check… Continue reading
Jan. 16, 2012 / A New Year, A New Semester…
Jan. 16 — The new semester is upon us and all is well. We only wish that it would snow somewhat more here in Colorado — but that will come. Meanwhile, my courses this week are focusing on the ballade on the one hand, and the history of English prosody in the 16th century on the… Continue reading
Nov. 11 / Announcing a New, Very Small Journal: “Don’t Just Sit There”
Nov. 11 — In addition to teaching at Western State College, I also regularly teach courses at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, a wonderful independent literary non-profit in Denver (that you can read about here). After a recent class in fixed lyrical forms, I invited every member to send along one or two poems, offering to put… Continue reading
Oct. 31 / Literary Imagination Publishes Essay by Rothman on Robert Fitzgerald
Literary Imagination has just published an essay on Robert Fitzgerald by David J. Rothman. “Robert Fitzgerald, Avatar of Verse” appears in a forum organized by M. J. Fitzgerald, his daughter, that grew out of panels at AWP 2010 and the ALSCW conference in 2011. Speakers on the panels included Dana Gioia, Judith Baumel, Jacqueline Osherow,… Continue reading
Oct. 5 / New Poem, “Party Barn,” by Rothman appears in Mountain Gazette
David J. Rothman, Director of the Poetry Concentration, has a brief new poem, “Party Barn,” in issue #182 of Mountain Gazette, one of the more widely read magazines in the west. The poetry section is edited by Western Slope Poet Laureate Art Goodtimes and this issue also includes poems by Robert King, Dan Beachy-Quick, Linda… Continue reading
Oct. 5 / Ernest Hilbert’s Essay from 2011 Critical Symposium Appears in CPR
Ernest Hilbert’s excellent essay from this summer’s Critical Symposium on Poetry Criticism is out in Contemporary Poetry Review. The other essays should be appearing soon, thanks to the hard work of Joan Houlihan and Ernie. Read Ernie’s excellent survey of concrete, pattern, and other visual and graphic forms of poetry here.
Oct. 3 / “Six Poets Short of a Sonnet” to Read at Boulder’s Innisfree Bookstore this Thursday, Oct. 6
Oct. 3 / This coming Thursday, October 6, a group of poets styling themselves “Six Poets Short of a Sonnet,” and including WSC MFA students Malinda Miller and Susan Spear along with other students of David J. Rothman’s from Lighthouse (Andrea Doray, Joslyn Green, Martha Kalin, Dale Schellenger, Jody Sorenson and Rich Uhrlaub) will read… Continue reading
