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05/15/2019

On this Throwback Tuesday, don't miss this stunning work from alum Lily Duffy in the Yalobusha Review:

"Find the plastic for my

Face on the floor every morning, after

I’ve slipped on it"

Read on for more From 'Wrought'.

At the gas station, a woman pulls up beside a pump, gets out of her car, unscrews the cap, bends down, and begins vomiting into her gas tank. Vomit slides down the wheel well and pools on the ground, the whole ordeal lasting several minutes. When she’s finished, she wipes her mouth with the back o...

05/14/2019

Speaking of life beyond CU, congratulations to recent MFA grad Natalie Sharp on receiving a Fulbright! Natalie will be headed to Armenia for the 2019–20 academic year on an English Teaching Assistantship.

Nine CU Boulder students have been offered prestigious Fulbright awards, and five more have alternate status. Fulbright is the nation’s flagship international educational exchange program.

05/10/2019

CONGRATULATIONS! to our class of 2019. Thank you for all of your hard work and we can't wait to see what you create next!

05/09/2019

"You know

the spirits step lightly,

press shadows on carpet, sweep

through plates of full fruit."

-Phuong T. Vuong, MFA candidate, in Platypus Press's Wildness.

05/08/2019

It's a Throwback Tuesday! Immerse yourself in this stunning work by CU MFA alum Ansley Clark in Diagram New Michigan Press.

scarcity    the soft nighttime amusement                               of the universe    which allows the spirits   

05/07/2019

"In her arms Which are not flowers Are stop signs/
open eyed starry Are Neighbors Children just heard not seen"

Hate cannot bare this when The love Poem throws up a sharp hue Hue is a word Death uses when talking about a typical day gathering The helix of purple flowers

04/30/2019

Get ready for tonight's reading--get to know our readers!

Serena Chopra has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of two full-length books of poems, This Human (Coconut 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two chapbooks, Penumbra (Flying Guillotine Press 2012) and Livid Season (Free Poetry 2012). She is a Kundiman Fellow and a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar, for which she is composing hybrid writing informed by her research with q***r women in Bangalore, India. She is a multidisciplinary artist, working as a professional dancer, theater/performance artist and visual artist. She is a co-founder and actor in the poet’s theater group, GASP and worked with Denver’s Splintered Light Theater on a full-length production of Ic, for which she composed the soundscore. She has an ongoing text/image collaboration, Memory is a Future Tense, with artist Lu Cong. Serena currently teaches in the MFA program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

https://www.serenachopra.com/

Courtney E. Morgan received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she has also taught creative writing. Her collection of stories, The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman, was a semifinalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and is forthcoming from FC2 Press in Spring 2017. She is managing editor of The Thought Erotic journal on sexuality and gender. She lives in Denver with her son.

http://www.courtneyemorgan.com/

Hybrid & Cross-Genre Forms// Saturday, June 8th & Sunday June 9th, 1:00-4:00 pm with Serena Chopra @ Denver’s Lighthouse Lit Fest

04/29/2019

This National Poetry Month is going out with a bang, not a whimper--tomorrow night, Tuesday 4/30, CU MFA alumni Courtney Morgan and Serena Chopra will be giving a literary reading at 7:00 in HUMN 135. The event will be catered and include an introduction from second-year MFA in fiction, Mackenzie Suess. We'll CU there!

04/28/2019

Chase your case of the Mondays away with the Panel on Experimental Criticism with Jackie Wang, Andrea Brady, and our very own second-year MFA candidate Phuong Vuong! Join us at 5PM on April 29th in the Hellems 111 Student Lounge.

Brady is the author of The Strong Room, Cut from the Rushes, Mutability: Scripts for Infancy, and Wildfire: A Verse Essay. She is working on a book on the history of Poetry and Bo***ge. She is a Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Wang is the author of Carceral Capitalism, and On Being Hard Femme. Wang is a PhD candidate at Harvard University's African American Studies program, and will be an Assistant Professor at The New School in the fall.

Vuong is the author of The House I Inherit and is an MFA candidate at CU Boulder. She is the winner of this year's Cookson Prize in Experimental Criticism.

04/25/2019

T G It's Almost Friday! Tomorrow night, National Book Award Finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen will close out our week of poetry. The reading will take place in Norlin M549, Center for British Irish Studies. She will be introduced by second year MFA candidate in poetry, Phuong Vuong.

Official website for poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen.