Welcome to the new online version of Marginalia. Here you’ll find information about upcoming literary events, interviews, reviews, and opportunities to get involved.

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Upcoming Events

October Selection
The Narrow Road to the Interior
by Kimiko Hahn

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
300 E. University Dr
Tempe, AZ 85281
480-965-3391

Department of English
PO Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
480-965-3168

Creative Writing Program
LL 315C
480-965-3528

Young Writers Program
Office of Youth Preparation 502 E Monroe St
Suite C124
Phoenix, AZ 85004-4435
480-496-1393

A Dobyns Retrospective

"The world doesn’t exist for me until I put it in language. And the language I like best is that of the poem."

–Stephen Dobyns during his Public Craft Q&A at the Piper Writers House.

The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series kicked off in fine fashion last month, as poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns spoke to a packed house at both a public craft Q&A and a public reading. The author spoke about his life as a writer, what gets in his way, and what keeps him going.

For The State Press coverage of his Q&A click here.

For a review of his reading click here.

Young Writers Program

The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series reaches out to Arizona high school students and their teachers. Social embeddedness is core to the development of ASU as the New American University. Together, the Piper Center for Creative Writing, and the Young Writers Program (YWP) are working hard to build strong vibrant communities, to stimulate art for a new century and to provide access to great art for Arizona’s k-12 community.

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Conversation: Poets in the Blogosphere

The HFR blog recently hosted a lively conversation between two poets on the purpose of blogging.

"When does "too much information" cloud our ability to feel a poem deeply at a personal level? Enter the poet-blogger...I wonder how these super hip, insecure, admittedly fallible, often brilliant, and sometimes humble archangels of all things poetry can do what they do."
–Darren Morris

"I’m not that worried that the blog will poach or taint my creative material because, frankly, I hope my creative material is on a different plane from my everyday life. Hearing about my road trip to Pittsburgh is not going to help decode a poem written in the voice of an orchid.”
–Sandra Beasley

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Out of the Pocket
by Bill Konigsberg

“By the novel’s end, we are so wrapped up in the plight of this earnest and complicated narrator, that we want nothing for him but that life, happiness in the absence of compromise."

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Issue 45 will be available next month. Click here to check out selected content from issue 44.

The Piper Center for Creative Writing is committed to supporting a vibrant and diverse literary community in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Through our giving program, you can ensure your financial support for our students and our community programs.

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Desert Nights, Rising Stars, will be on hiatus for 2010. This is in part a result of economic circumstances, in part a decision to take this opportunity to make use of our years of experience and the responses we’ve received from participants, faculty, volunteers and staff to reconsider some aspects of the conference.

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