From the Director
While it’s the dead of winter here in the desert, with daytime highs dipping low into the 60’s, all of us here at the Piper Center are anticipating, in just over a month, the first glimpse of spring: the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference.
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Registration Extended: Register Now for Desert Nights, Rising Stars
Don't miss your chance to take part in the 2012 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference.
The registration deadline has been extended. You now have until midnight on Feb. 3rd to register.
The conference takes place Feb. 23-26 on the ASU Tempe campus. The award-winning faculty includes Sally Ball, Robert Boswell, Bernard Cooper, Denise Duhamel, Carolyn Forché, Pam Houston, Adam Johnson, Mat Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Antonya Nelson, Alix Ohlin, Jem Poster, Melissa Pritchard, Jeannine Savard, Eleanor Wilner and Xu Xi.
We have recently updated the website with an outstanding roster of additional guests who will be taking part in classes and panels during the conference. A tentative schedule will be posted soon.
Click HERE to register.
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Poet Ray Gonzalez Highlights Upcoming Spring Events
The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference is not the only event on tap this spring.
Award-winning poet Ray Gonzalez will be on the ASU Tempe campus in early March as part of our Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. He will conduct a Q&A in the Piper Writers House and give a reading in the Memorial Union on Monday, March 12. These events are co-sponsored with Superstition Review, ASU's online literary journal
If you missed any of our fall readings with Tony Barnstone, Bruce Weigl, Aimee Bender and the ASU MFA Faculty you can watch them HERE.
ASU MFA faculty member Melissa Pritchard will read from her new collection of short stories, Odditorium, at Changing Hands Bookstore on Thursday, Jan. 26. Joining her is award-winning author and scriptwriter Elizabeth Searle, who visits with her novel Girl Held in Home. Both will read excerpts that deal with the issue of human trafficking, coinciding with the proclamation of January 2012 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month by President Barack Obama.
Pritchard's short story "The Nine-Gated City" is set partly in a brothel district of Calcutta, and Searle's novel is based on a real crime in which a woman was held against her will as an unpaid servant in the home of a wealthy American family.
The Young Writers Program and the Arizona Commission on the Arts will host the 2012 Poetry Out Loud Central Region finals on March 10 at the Memorial Union on the ASU Tempe campus.
Poetry Out Loud seeks to foster the next generation of literary readers by capitalizing on the latest trends in poetry–recitation and performance. Poetry Out Loud invites the dynamic aspects of slam poetry, spoken word, and theater into the English class. Through Poetry Out Loud, students can master public speaking skills, build self-confidence and learn about their literary heritage.
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Alumni News
Why did the Program Manager cross the road? To join the Origins Project. This month we said goodbye to Michelle Iwen, who served as the Program Manager for our MFA Program in Creative Writing for the last year and a half. We thank Michelle for her dedication and hard work, and wish her the best in her new role!
MFA Faculty News
Melissa Pritchard's new collection, The Odditorium, was recently selected as the "Book of the Week" on the Oprah blog. The book also got a glowing review in the Los Angeles Times. T.R. Hummer recently published an article entitled "The Mystery of Vachel Lindsay" in Slate, the online current affairs and culture magazine. Beckian Fritz Goldberg's most recent book of poetry, Reliquary Fever, received a nice review on the website, On the Seawall.
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Tory Adkisson
"Wilderness of Flesh," which appears in HFR #49, was a strange poem for me to write—the beginning, in fact, of a somewhat formally experimental (at least for me) period I'm only now beginning to make more sense of. The stacked lines that begin a few of the stanzas were, to me, sort of daring to set down. In fact, writing any lines that do not conform to the left margin still carries an interminable spark of the transgressive for me, a sense that I am doing something bad, making a mess, challenging the status quo (even if the status quo is me, and all the writing that led up to the poem.) MORE
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