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First Annual Graduate Student Choice Reading Brings Alexandra Kleeman to MU
“She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white…” So begins Alexandra Kleeman’s Jellyfish, the short story she read this past Thursday to a crowd of people in the Miami University Bookstore.
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So She Pushed Me: Sherman Alexie Enthralls Crowd in Guest Lecture
On Monday, April 3, an assortment of students, professors, and Oxford citizens alike swelled into the high-ceilinged auditorium in Shideler Hall. As the lights dimmed, voices suddenly hushed in anticipatory silence; a few pairs of eyes searched the room, others whispering about potential extravagant grand entrances. As the author of the National Book Award-winning young…
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MUPress Author Garth Greenwell Returns to Teach Fiction
MUPress Author Garth Greenwell returned to Oxford, OH last week to teach a graduate workshop and visit the undergraduate capstone course. He also read from his acclaimed book What Belongs to You, which was recently named PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Greenwell spoke on the importance of place in storytelling, an element he considers crucial yet sometimes…
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Alum Matt Young Interview
On Thursday, February 16th, 2017, Miami University Master’s in Creative Writing graduate Matt Young sat down with students in TaraShea Nesbit’s Intermediate Nonfiction Writing course (ENG 323), to talk about his forthcoming memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018). The memoir explores the time in his life when he made a rash decision to join the…
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George Packer, MU Professor James Tobin, and Alum Matt Young Draw Crowds for War Stories
The filming studio of Williams Hall is a large room. It has to be in order to hold the massive props, recording equipment, high-end professional cameras, and the filmmakers themselves. As a testament to the anticipation for this February 16th reading, the room was nearly filled to the brim with chairs set a little too…
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Janice Lowe performing “Boy Flower Tamir”
Miami University Press poet/musician Janice Lowe and musician Yohann Potico performed Lowe’s poem “Boy Flower Tamir” for us during the Two Poets and a Bassist event described in our previous blog post by English Department Ambassador Tim Thomas. A videorecording of the performance as well as the poem itself are on our Facebook page here. The…
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Poets and Musicians Discuss Collaboration, Creation
On Monday, November 14, the Humanities Center, Creative Writing Program, and Miami University Press sponsored the panel “Collaborating Across the Arts: A Conversation” featuring Miami University Press poet and musician Janice Lowe, acclaimed poet Tyehimba Jess, and musician Yohann Potico. They spoke about the importance of respect in collaboration, their creative processes, and their current…
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Needing the Form to Feel Free: Kathryn Davis on Creativity
On Monday, February 23, the Humanities Center and the Creative Writing Program hosted celebrated author Kathryn Davis along with Miami faculty members Dr. Cathy Wagner and Professor Margaret Luongo for a panel entitled “How to Make a World: Writers on Creativity.” Dr. Timothy Melley, director of the Miami University Humanities Center, introduced the panel, which…
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Inventive Translation: Poet Trevor Joyce Returns to Miami
Wednesday, October 12, poet Trevor Joyce drew an impressive crowd for a reading in Irvin Hall. Joyce has published fifteen volumes of poetry to date, including poetry he translated from Chinese, Finno-Urgic, Hungarian, and Old Irish. Currently, Joyce is working on an English-English translation of the Mutabilitie Cantos from Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queene, and…