The annual Spring Festival for the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program features readings and performances by graduating MFA candidates and a guest writer or artist. MFA candidates showcase selections from their MFA thesis projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1:00 pm
\nGreeting and Opening Remarks – Jeanne Heuving<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1:10 pm
\nSarah Baker – Water’s Work
\nBreka Blakeslee – Probably It Will Not Be Okay
\nScott Brown – Private Browsing
\nLaura Burgher – The Researcher’s Book of Her\/mes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2:15 pm
\nSamuel Iniguez – HisJazzRaptoMe: Hip Hop Vignettes & Quarter Waters
\nDenise Coville – Chairs
\nLynarra Featherly – The Feminology of Spirit
\nColin MacArthur – The Boatman of Hades
\nMegan McGinnis – Newness and Nowness<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4:00 pm
\nPenny Quinteros – Toeing the Line: A Short Story Collection
\nTravis Sharp – Love Poems to the Poet’s Body
\nTodd Simmons – Still We Rise
\nChristine Smith – The Spirit Cabinet<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5:30 pm
\nJulie Carr reading\/ benediction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6:00
\nReception<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guest artist Julie Carr is the author of six books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (2010), RAG (2014), and Think Tank (forthcoming, 2015). She is also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (2013), and the co-editor of Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice (forthcoming, 2015). She has been the recipient of numerous awards and Honors, including The National Poetry Series and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Julie Carr is serving as the Associate Chair for the Creative Writing Program at University of Colorado Boulder, where she is Associate Professor of English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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