News from the School of IAS

Category: Creative Writing and Poetics

Convergence Zone hosts Janice Lee, extending meditate on Memory and Memorial

One week after the 2021 Fall Convergence on the theme of Memory and Memorial, students and faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics extended these considerations in a satellite event hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. The event featured Portland-based author Janice Lee, a Korean-American writer, editor, teacher, and shamanic healer, reading from her new book Imagine A Death. She also ...

October 12, 2021

Ching-In Chen teaches at LiTFUSE Poetry Workshop

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen taught two workshops at this year’s 15th Annual LiTFUSE Poetry Workshop in Tieton, Washington and has nominated MFA student Madison Nikfard and Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Sam Prudente to serve as ...

September 27, 2021

Corbin Louis releases music and poetry

This summer, IAS alum Corbin Louis (B.A. Culture, Literature & the Arts 2014; MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics 2017) has been active in the poetry and music communities in Seattle, finding ways to share his work with a variety of audiences. Louis, a Seattle artist with deep roots in slam poetry and DIY music, says of his practice, "as a UW Bothell alum, my goal is to write with a reason. For me that means ...

September 3, 2021

Scott Bentley receives fellowships from Hugo House and Mineral School

IAS alum Scott Bentley (MFA 2021) has been selected as a 2021-2022 Hugo Fellow by Seattle's Hugo House. The fellowship supports emerging writers in the Seattle area who are working to complete a proposed project. Bentley will use the fellowship to continue working on his manuscript of visual and translation poetry Bwai \ Remapping, which began as his MFA thesis. The poems rely ...

August 23, 2021

Jeanne Heuving named Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow

IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving will be the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University (UK) beginning Fall 2021 through Spring 2022. During her fellowship, Heuving will write a new book to add to her series of books that ...

July 6, 2021

Jeanne Heuving edits volume on Nathaniel Mackey

IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving is the editor of a collection of essays on the writer Nathaniel Mackey, a book of ten separate essays, with an introduction by Heuving, published by the University of Iowa Press. The essays cover ...

July 6, 2021

Denise Calvetti Michaels publishes The Things Downriver

MFA alum Denise Calvetti Michaels' newest book, The Things Downriver (Cave Moon Press, 2020), is comprised of lyric passages focused on interludes of summer on the farm in Salinas, California, home of her paternal grandparents, Agostina & Ercole Bianco. “During this period of childhood, my brother and I explored the boundaries of the farm and steeped ourselves within diverse cultural exchanges among neighbors, family and friends,” said Michaels.

June 21, 2021

Nicole McCarthy’s book to be published by Heavy Feather Review

Alum Nicole McCarthy’s first book is set to be published in 2022 by Heavy Feather Review. The book is an expansion of McCarthy’s MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics thesis, “Manor of Memory,” which she completed in 2017. “It wouldn't have been the book it is now without my thesis advisor, Renee Gladman, a visiting writer in our MFA program who graciously agreed to work with me,” said McCarthy.

June 21, 2021