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In Praise of the Essay: Practice & Form

Monday, August 1st, 2011
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I am lucky to have met the talented essayist Kim Dana Kupperman at Pine Manor College, and I’ve had the opportunity to do a bit of  volunteer work for her non-profit organization, Welcome Table Press, which is dedicated to publishing and celebrating the essay in all its forms.

On Saturday, October 15, Welcome Table Press will host a symposium in New York City titled “In Praise of the Essay: Practice & Form.” From everything I’ve heard, the first symposium hosted by WTP was a fantastic event, and I have no doubt this one will be, too. The honoree is Phillip Lopate, and speakers include Robin Hemley, Barbara Hurd, Helen Benedict, Joshua Wolf Shenk, and Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr (creators of Idiots’ Books).

A panel on teaching the essay will feature presentations by Richard Hoffman, Patrick Madden, Suzanne Menghraj, Robert Root, Suzanne Strempek Shea, and Dustin Beall Smith. There will also be readings by Amy Leach, E. J. Levy, Shelley Salamensky, Jerald Walker, and Ryan Van Meter, and a Q&A with editors from Best American Essays, Cabinet, Creative Nonfiction, Defunct, Fourth Genre, Graywolf Press, The Pedestrian, River Teeth, Sarabande Books, and more.

If you’d like to register for the symposium, a registration form can be found online here. You can also stay in touch with Welcome Table Press through Facebook and Twitter:

I’m hoping to make it to the symposium this year. If so, maybe I’ll see you there!

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PMC faculty, students on the move

Thursday, March 31st, 2011
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Some highlights from the most recent issue of the monthly newsletter produced by the Solstice MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pine Manor College (congrats and best wishes, all):

Readings and Events:

MASSACHUSETTS

MFA Program Director Meg Kearney will read as part of the 2010 PEN New England L.L. Winship Award Winners Reading, Wednesday, April 13 at 6 p.m. at Emerson College’s Bright Family Screening Room of the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston, MA.

For more information, email: mailto:Christine_Casson@emerson.edu

Poet Dzvinia Orlowsky will read and give a talk on Tuesday, April 5 from 6:30–7:30 p.m. at the Whitman Public Library, 100 Webster Street, Whitman, MA.

For more information, call: 781-446-7613.

MFA graduate Jina Ortiz will read on Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. as part of an event sponsored by the Women’s National Book Association/Boston at the Coolidge Corner Branch Library meeting room, 31 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA.

For more information, go to: http://www.wnbaboston.org

MICHIGAN

Multi-genre writer Anne-Marie Oomen will be reading and leading a workshop as part of the Rally of Writers conference, sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council on Saturday, April 2 in Lansing, Michigan.

For more information, go to: http://www.arallyofwriters.com/

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Meg Kearney will read with Baron Wormser on Wednesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. at River Run Books, 20 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH.

For more information, go to:http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/

NEW JERSEY

Meg Kearney will read with fellow 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize finalists on Saturday, April 2 from 1–3 p.m. at the Historic Hamilton Club Building, Passaic County Community College, 32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ.

For more information, email: mailto:SDESAI@pccc.edu

Publications:

Kathleen Aguero’s poem “Turkey Pond: Scattering the Ashes,” is included in the recently published anthology, Solace in So Many Words, edited by Ellen Wade Beals. The book is available for sale on Amazon.com

MFA student Melissa Ford Lucken’s story “Undone by the Undead” is available for download on Ellora’s Cave.

For more information, go to: http://www.jasminejade.com

Multi-genre writer Sandra Scofield’s short fiction, “Staph,” was recently published by Narrative Magazine online.

To read the piece, go to: http://www.narrativemagazine.com/files/ScofieldSandra_Staph.pdf

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