Rutgers-Newark MFA

12/06/2023

Thanks for your patience while our website is under construction. Here are the Application Requirements:

06/13/2022

Congrats to RU-N MFA second year poet Huiying!

Now for the Kurt Brown Prize poetry winner and finalists! Congratulations to our winner, huiying b. chan! And a special congrats to Elline Lipkin and Arhm Wild, our finalists! Learn more about the winners and Kurt Brown Prizes here: https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/kurt_brown_prizes_overview

12/15/2020

📢 ATTENTION APPLICANTS: The RU-N MFA Program is extending our application deadline to Jan. 8th, 2021. Looking forward to yours!
*All materials should be submitted online; GREs not required for the 2021 cycle*
https://admissionservices.rutgers.edu/graduate/newApplicant.app

07/11/2020

Rutgers-Newark and NJPAC invite you to make your voice heard through a new partnership: City Verses. This unique, multifaceted program includes several intergenerational educational programs that will celebrate and expand upon jazz’s rich, historical interaction with poetry.

For students 13-18, NJPAC & Rutgers-Newark will be offering a FREE City Verses Virtual Summer Camp called, "Breathe: Expressing Life through Poetry and Jazz."

This camp will offer high school students the opportunity to explore jazz poetry and learn how to compose new work in a collaborative process.

Follow the link to learn more and register.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, by celebrating diversity, shall be America’s foremost urban presenter of arts and entertainment, a creative and effective leader in arts education for children, a convener of useful and enlightening civic engagement events, and a catalyst for economic develop...

03/04/2020

REMINDER! Please join us for our official reception at AWP this year! No matter who you are--alumnus, current student, or possible applicant--we'd love to meet you! Come say hello and have a drink on Saturday, March 7, 2020, from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio!

02/10/2020

We still have some AWP spots available! Please let Melissa know at [email protected] if you'll need a registration, ASAP!
Also - Join us for our RU-N reception!
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2020
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Presidio AB, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Third Floor

11/08/2019

Congratulations to recent alum Emily Luan, who has three poems on the homepage of The Offing today!

Poetry - The Offing Magazine

10/07/2019

RU-N MFA will be hosting a table at AWP in San Antonio this year! We have a limited number of comp registrations that we have opened to students, and would like to extend the invite to any alumni who plan to attend AWP. Please email Melissa at [email protected] to request one. First come, first served. No guarantees. All we ask of you is your time. Please plan to spend an couple hours at the table.

10/07/2019

GRAMMY Museum Experience™ Prudential Center would like to offer a special $10 ticket to our friends at Rutgers for our upcoming Spotlight event with D.I.Y. music phenomenon, Lauv on Wednesday, October 9th at 7:30pm!
For more information and to purchase tickets click here: https://www.grammymuseumexp.org/lauv.html
Enter the discount code: RUTGERS

Grammy Museum Experience Prudential Center is thrilled to welcome 24-year-old independent, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Lauv