Arizona State University MFA Program in Creative Writing

It's time again for our next installment of the Reading Series. Hope you can make it!

Professor Matt Bell is named one of Phoenix's 40 under 40!

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ASU's Piper Center celebrates local writers Getting a bunch of high school students to show up for a poetry reading on a Friday afternoon in the summer is quite a feat. Actually getting them excited about it is another level of accomplishment entirely. Peoria-based poet and Liberty High English teacher Cody Wilson, an ASU alumnus, managed to....

"Invitation to a Bonfire," a psychological thriller by ASU alum Adrienne Celt (MFA 2012), leads off Nylon's list of "46 great books to read this summer." http://ow.ly/m0u630keAjD

excerpt from "Factory Girl," by Aimée Baker In the Silk City, seventeen-year-old Jennie Bosschieter makes ribbons inside a factory. Men work the vats of the neighboring dye houses, coloring so many miles of silk thread that they could connect Paterson, New Jersey, to the Netherlands, the country where Jennie was born, thousands of times and s

Poetry exchange writes ASU professor into 'New Yorker' feature first “Envelopes of Air” appeared May 23 in The New Yorker, as the first of a “new recurring poetry feature that will be published exclusively on the web.” The series is intended as a platform for debuting long-form and experimental work. ASU assistant professor of English Natalie Diaz is one of t...

Things a Girl Should Know by MFA alum Aimée Baker is featured by Verse Daily

Verse Daily: Things a Girl Should Know by Aimée Baker Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

Oxidant|Engine : Dorothy Chan Poems by Dorothy Chan.

For the People, By the Poet: Joel Salcido For the People, by the Poet, (FP by the P) is a column written by local street poet Rashaad Thomas that highlights, celebrates and supports local poets in Arizona cities. Poets outside academia often feel excluded from the dialogue that influences diverse communities using new and innovative methods...

New poetry from MFA alum Jennifer Meritt in Threadcount

Jennifer Conlon Taking To Water 1. Two days before third grade I hear them arguing about the bus. I ride the bus, but mom says not no more. Stepdad says bad things are always happening. . 2. What does a dead girl …

'Poetry takes risks': A daring ASU writer earns her degree Hailing from Springfield, Virginia, ASU student Susan Nguyen has called the desert her home for the past three years. She is earning her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing (poetry) here, where she served as the poetry editor for literary journal Hayden’s Ferry Review and received several fell...

A place at the table: ASU grad writes for community For ASU student Maritsa Leyva Martinez, fiction writing is a community endeavor. Her love for the craft began in a community setting and has continued at ASU in her work as a citizen-artist. Martinez is graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing (fiction) after defending her thesis, a...

Documentary Screening: A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet Larry Levis has ultimately become one of America’s essential poets, as his work has continued to grow in popularity and influence among a broad range of readers and writers. Featuring an original score by the well-known singer/songwriter Sam Beam of Iron and Wine, A Late Style of Fire celebrates t...

Small Press Distribution Recommends MFA alum Vedran Husic's debut collection!

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New fiction from ASU alum, writer and teacher, Michael Holladay!

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"The Sanctuary" by MFA Alum Dana Diehl

“The Sanctuary” by Dana Diehl Saturday is abortion day at Happy Bellies: Potbelly Pig Rescue and Sanctuary.

MFA Alum Dana Diehl's collection, Our Dreams Might Align, is available now!

Our Dreams Might Align (Paperback) This product is available for pre-order and will be released on April 16. Two brothers, swallowed by a whale, lament the loneliness they suffer in...

Tripple threat! Poetry from MFA alumna Lauren Albin, Sue Hyon Bae, and Aria Curtis in the new issues of the Southeast Review!

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Natalie Diaz Poetry Reading and Presentation of Emily Morrison Prizes in Poetry and Fiction (2018-04-12) Poet Natalie Diaz, a former professional basketball player, and author of When My Brother Was an Aztec will be reading as part of the Speakeasy Reading Series, sponsored by the MFA program in Creative Writing and the Department of English. She is Mojave, an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian

Professor Tara Ison VS The Haboob (and other dangers on the road)!

Haboob - Tara Ison - BLARB Tara Ison gets stuck in a haboob in Arizona, and reflects on a lifetime of dangerous road trips.

ASU alumna finds success as an author after graduating from MFA program Adrienne Celt graduated from Arizona State University with a Master of Fine Arts in 2012 from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. While immersing herself into the MFA program, Celt explored herself as a writer and learned what it meant, for her, to be successful in the world of literature.

Professor Alberto Rios brings poetry to the community through the NEA Big Read

Bringing Poetry to Communities: A Behind-the-Scenes Look from Two NEA Big Read Poets Happy National Poetry Month!

Have you devoured Meet Behind Mars by MFA Alum Renee Simms yet?

The Millions: Meet Behind Mars (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by Renee Simms Meet Behind Mars (Made in Michigan Writers Series) By Renee Simms New Price: $18.99 Used Price: Mentioned in: Year in Reading A Year in Reading: Kima Jones Kima Jones I’ve been making lists since my father died in September. Lists of the things I need to do, lists of the things I need to finish, l...

WE MAKE OUR OWN ORIGIN STORIES WHEN OUR MOTHERS HAVE SECRETS by Aria Curtis ​ My mother made me in a mirror / on a white sheet surrounded / by wishing women / thumbing pages / turning beads like seeds / with their fingers /...

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Millennial Roost Millennial Roost Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "Dustin Pearson's debut collection, MILLENNIAL ROOST, is exemplary of lyric alchemy at its most powerful. In Pearson's hands, the stunning story of a young man's fateful encounter with someone he dubs both 'chicken and monster,' w...

Charles Jensen Wins Zócalo’s Seventh Annual Poetry Prize | Prizes | Zócalo Public Square Zócalo Public Square’s daily ideas journalism and free public events aim to connect people and ideas, exploring our shared human condition and the world we

"When history, society, and culture conspire toward collapse, all we have left is language—Vedran Husić knows this. He is the natural heir to Bruno Schulz, Danilo Kiš, Gombrovicz: stylists and story-tellers battered by war."
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ASU professor and state poet laureate leads in poetry and education ASU professor and Arizona poet laureate Alberto Rios encourages students to write for their communities.