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community feature: Solstice MFA!!!

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Just a quick post to share some of the virtual events open to the general public going on at this year’s Solstice MFA Winter Residency! Super excited to be given a chance to work with these graduate students, building with them and guiding them on their respective writing paths, as well as to engage with the vibrant Solstice community.

With Solstice events, you can expect a multi-genre experience, reflecting our range of concentrations and expertise. Events below include readings of poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, young adult and children’s literature, graphic novel.

If you’re interested in attending these virtual events, be sure to register at the links provided below. I myself will be personally involved in the Faculty reading on Tuesday, FYI 🙂

Here are the events:

Sunday, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m. EST: Guest Faculty & Writer-in-Residence Reading

Hear a sampling of three-minute readings from our winter 2022 guest faculty and writers-in-residence, including Devi Lockwood, Shelley Linso, and Terrance Hayes (register here).

Monday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. EST: Graduating Student Reading

This residency, four Solstice students will earn their MFA degrees. Hear them read from the work they crafted during their time in the program (register here).

Tuesday, Jan. 11, 7 p.m. EST: Solstice Faculty and Staff Reading

This one will offer a sampling of work from faculty mentors and staff at Solstice. Each reading will last three minutes. Readers include Meg Kearney, Kathleen Aguero, Venise Berry, David Yoo, Laura Williams McCaffrey, and mine own self (register here).

To find out more about these events, go here.

Happy new year, y’all!!!

Flyer for the faculty reading next Tuesday.

shoutouts: here and beyond!

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This week I’d love to give some shoutouts to some upcoming publications as well as to share some other happenings. Here we go:

  • Shoutout to Quintin Collins whose second poetry collection, Claim Tickets for Stolen People (winner of The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize), is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press’ imprint Mad Creek. This collection is available for pre-order here. For more on Collins and his work, check out this feature.
  • Shoutout also to John Sibley Williams whose poetry collection, The Drowning House (winner of the 2020 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award) is also forthcoming and available for pre-order. Check out this past feature to see some of his work.
  • Lastly, shoutout to this happening: phenomenal poet Bert Meyers finally has a page on the Poetry Foundation site. This has been a long time coming, even emailed myself at one point to nudge the good folx along to honor and have an online space for his work. Check out this past post (and this one, and this one, haha) on his work to further celebrate his work. I’ve done a few posts on his works and am always down to geek out about it 🙂

That’s all for now. Off to catch my breath as life keeps spinning forward. Stay safe, y’all!