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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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Spotlight on erica lewis
I stopped erica lewis (author of multiple books, curator of the John Oates House reading series, and a fine arts publicist who will visit Miami this Wednesday) with some questions about her process, recommendations, and life soundtrack. (Read Lewis’s daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015), murmur in the inventory (2013), and new poems from the forthcoming mary wants…
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Get It In Your Body: Alumni Open Up at Leonard Theater Talk
Three graduates of Miami’s Poetry MA program—alumni Darren Demaree, Daisy Levy, and Chris Michel—visited the Leonard Theater in Peabody Hall on Tuesday to participate in a roundtable discussion. Each took radically different paths after their MA program, leading to a richly diverse conversation connected by the transference of that passion. They explained how their experience…
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Spotlight on Alumni Darren Demaree, Daisy Levy, and Chris Michel
Three Miami alumni will be giving a talk this coming Tuesday English Department Ambassador Deanna Krokos had some questions for the three former Redhawks.
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Alum Tom Dever Talks Screenplay-writing on a Shoestring in First Event of Year
On Thursday, September 15, nearly every seat of the Bachelor Reading room was eagerly filled to hear the insights of a recent Miami grad. Tom Dever earned his BA in Creative Writing here in Oxford before moving to California in pursuit of his MFA from the University of California and launching a successful career in…
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Antiwar, Feminist, Environmentalist, Cat Lady: Marge Piercy Visits MU
Friday, April 15, respected novelist, poet, and memoirist Marge Piercy filled theauditorium in McGuffey Hall with her commanding presence. Piercy is the author ofseventeen novels including the New York Times Bestseller Gone to Soldiers, nineteencollections of poetry, and most recently a critically-acclaimed memoir entitled Sleeping with Cats. To an audience of all ages, Piercy read…
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Jenny Boully Takes Campus By Storm
English Department Ambassador Tim Thomas took to the Department of English website to talk about Columbia College Chicago professor Jenny Boully‘s time at Miami with both the graduate English program in a four day intensive creative nonfiction sprint course, as well as a reading held last Wednesday in Shriver Bookstore.
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Art Overlapping: An Interview With Bethany Pierce
First year Creative Writing M.A. student Erin Jamieson interviews Miami alum Bethany Pierce on her life as a writer, her time at Miami, and how her art has inspired her writing: in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Bethany Pierce graduated with a BA in Art and an MA in Creative Writing from Miami University in 2006. Her novels, Feeling for…