Join us at the Boston Book Festival, October 24

The MFA program in poetry will be one of the exhibitors at the Boston Book Festival in Copley Square on Saturday, October 24 from 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. Stop by and visit booth #27, if you are in the neighborhood.

Next Open House January 9, 2010

Want to experience an MFA program first hand?

Attend our next Open House:
Saturday, January 9, 2010
10:00 AM-6:00 PM

Join us for a writing workshop with program director, Jim Harms, lectures, a reading and meet
our faculty & students. All for free during our winter residency.

Pre-registration required: Contact Jacqueline Gens
at jgens@nec.edu or 603-219-9172.

Nikoletta Nousiopoulis (09)

Nikoletta Nousiopoulis (09) will be one of the featured readers at the Martha's Vineyard Mass Poetry Festival October 15, 2009 at the Louisa Gould Gallery beginning at 7:30 PM.

Her manuscript, All the Dead Goats, has been accepted for publication by Little Red Tree Press scheduled for release in January 2010. Scroll down to older posts from the summer 2009 residency to view a video of her reading from the manuscript.

Karen Dietrich (08) Recent Publications

Karen Dietrich (08) has work in the following publications:

Poetry:
"Furnace Room," "Source," and "This is What I Know So Far" appear in the October 2009 issue of Pank Magazine.

"Revision" appears in the Fall 2009 issue of The Dirty Napkin.
Karen's manuscript was a finalist for the Keystone Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press.

Nonfiction:
A story, "Bread and Butter," appears in the online journal Monkeybicycle.

Ilya Kaminsky Wins Levinson Prize

Core faculty mentor at New England College, Ilya Kaminsky, has won the 2009 Levinson Prize. Founded in 1914, previous prize winners read like a who's who in poetry. Congratulations, once again, Ilya!

Ivy Page (09) Announces New Literary Journal--OVS Magazine

Ivy Page (09) in collaboration with Stephen Page would like to
introduce, OVS Magazine (Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine)

OVS Magazine is an online and (soon-to-be) print literary journal
based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, edited by staff and
guest authors. We are now accepting submissions for our first edition
coming in December of 2009! Submission deadline is November 20th.
http://www.ovsmag.com/index.html


Editors/Guest Editors:

Ivy Page, Poet

Stephen Page, Web Designer/Poet

Elizabeth Kiser, Writer

Beth Page, Illustrator/Designer

Cinnamon Stuckey (09), Poet/Editor



Maxine Kumine has graciously agreed to be our featured poet for our first
issue!

Send us your art, your poetry, and even your art that goes with your
poetry, and all you have poured into it! We want to hear from
everyone. So, it doesn't matter if you haven't published before, or
if you are an old pro. It doesn't matter to us how many galleries you
have hung in. We just want great work that makes us feel what you are
expressing.

Terry Lucas (’08) recent and upcoming work

Terry Lucas (08) recently had work published in the September issue of Poets and Artists and in Naugatuck River Review. He also has work upcoming in hotmetalpress and Ocho. His review of Shaindel Beers’ A Brief History of Time can be read at www.thewideningspell.blogspot.com

Alumni Reading at Forbes Library in Northampton,MA on September 26

New England College MFA Program in Poetry Alumni Reading at the Forbes Library community room in Northampton, MA

WHEN: Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM

WHERE: 
Forbes Library 
20 West St 
Northampton, MA 01060-3798 
(413) 587-1011

Please join us for a fun event and supper afterwards. Bring your friends........

Jacqueline Gens, Co-director 
MFA Program in Poetry 
New England College 
98 Bridge Street 
Henniker, NH 03242 
603-219-9172 (cell)

More News

Jay Rubin (07) and Nikoletta Nousiopoulos (11)  have poems in 2River View with recordings of their featured poems....Check out great photos by Louis Seigal of the September 11 reading at Upstairs at Erikas. including this photo of MFA faculty Malena Morling.

New Poets for Peace 9/11 Remembrance Event at Upstairs at Erikas

Readings & Silent Auction: Remembering those lost and celebrating those still with us . The event was held on Friday, September 11th in a private loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. *Featured Readings Included: Joan Larkin, Nick Flynn, Cindy Cruz, Bruce Covey Malena Morling, Douglas Unger and more. *Silent Auction Items Included: Private dinner for 4 prepared by renowned chef, Private yoga class with top yoga instructor, cooking lessons of any type you'd like, such as gourment, healthy, vegatarian, simple quick easy meals, and your choice of setting–meaning just for you or a cooking/dinner party, as well as other unique items. Music by Warren Malone.

photo credit; Louis Seigal

Francesco Levato (11) Recent and Forthcoming Publications & Events

Recent Publications

Scapegoat Review, Summer 2009

Drunken Boat, Issue 10, Spring 2009
Visual Poetics: Video Poetry
curated by Francesco Levato

Big Bridge

Seven Corners
featured poet, August 8, 2009

Upcoming readings/lectures/events

Series A Conversations Mini-Conference, September 19, 2009

New Media Poetics: Focus on Film

This panel explores the intersection of poetic and cinematic expression and the role of poets and filmmakers in interdisciplinary collaborative relationships. The panel will open with a 30 minute film screening of various forms of the genre, followed by a discussion featuring poets/filmmakers Eric Gelehrter, Kurt Heintz, Francesco Levato, Julia Miller, and Nate Slawson. Moderated by Francesco Levato.

Binary: A Pairing of Opposite States
Exhibition: Friday, October 9 – Saturday, November 7, 2009.
Opening reception: Friday, October 9, 2009 - 6 p.m. - midnight.

The binary switch has two states: off and on, or negative and positive. This is how computers work; everything that computers do boils down to the binary switch being in the negative or positive position. Artists also operate in modes of being switched on and off, especially when artists enter a collaborative relationship where their inspirations, methods and mediums perform a push/pull on each other resulting in mixed medias, hybrids, and mash-ups.

With an interactive video installation by Francesco Levato in which poetic texts and animated imagery are dynamically generated via SMS text messaging by gallery viewers.

Now Conference on Innovative Literature, October 14, 2009

War Rug: New Media Poetics (film)


Series A
November 4, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Francesco Levato, Jorge Sanchez


Rockpile, November 19, 2009
The Hideout, CHICAGO ROCKPILE PERFORMANCE and Jazz and Poetry Fest
Location: The Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia Chicago, Il 60622 773.227.4433 http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
7:00 am to 11:00 am
With The Spider Trio and Bob Malone Band, David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Art Lange, Ed Roberson, Dan Godston, Larry Sawyer, Francesco Levato, Theresa Carrion and more

Admission: $8
http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/

Carol Frost Interview

Check out Carol Frost's recent online interview on Smartish Place.. Carol is core faculty in the MFA program in Poetry at New England College.

Peter Res (10)

Peter Res' (10) chapbook, Vibrant Ghost, is online at Differentia Press

About Vibrant Ghost

Vibrant Ghost was born out of the poverty of illness. In particular, it is meant as an emotional/philosophical/poetic offering to my beloved mother’s struggle with shingles in the throat and mouth, so that her pain might end. The collection was compiled at 4 am on July 18th, partly of a new series of poems written in almost complete isolation (“Neon Soliloquies”) along with a handful of haphazard musings on death and dream. July 4th to the 30th was a time of constant ER visits, failed prognoses, and harrowing probabilities for us. During this period, I spent any and all time I had away from care giving, in the dark comfort of my workspaces, to pen my reticent frustrations in poems and letters. What has surfaced is something altogether emergent.

Peter G Res

August 9, 2009

Old Tappan, New Jersey

4:04 A.M.

Tara Betts (07) Publishes Arc & Hue

Tara Betts' (07) publication, Arc & Hue, from Aquarius Press/Willow Books imprint, is now available. Tara will be reading extensively. To access her schedule, visit her website at www.tarabetts.net

Tara Betts (07) received her MFA from New England College and is a Cave Canem fellow. Her work appears in Callaloo, Essence, Gathering Ground, and The Spoken Word Revolution, among other publications. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and lives in the New York area. Arc and Hue is her debut collection. [photo credit:Dorthey Perry]

When the words arc and hue come together they often make a rainbow. In these illuminating narratives, from personal to public, Tara Betts draws on a “coalition” of rich urban heritages to not only bring about the self-healing of a divided identity, but the prismatic “further healing” of a divided America, unearthing the linguist riches and myths of the African Diaspora along her way. These bold and engaging poems are the treasures of a caring writer fully committed to her gift. Sistuh Lady cooks.

—Wanda Coleman, poet & writer, Mercurochrome

Jim Harms on Poetry Daily

Program director, Jim Harms, will have a poem featured on Poetry Daily this coming Friday, August 28th. While you're on the site, check out our new front page banner ad!

Nikoletta Nousiopoulis (09)

Nikoletta Nousiopoulis (09) is the featured poet on August 20th at The Poetry Session at O'Shea's in West Dennis, MA.

Event Dates: 8/20/2009

Times: 7-8:30pm

Location: O'Shea's Olde Inne, 348 Main Street (Rt 28)

Directions: One mile East of the Bass River Bridge on Rt 28 in West Dennis

Contact Information: Gregory Hischak 508-398-5434

Here, Nikolleta reads the title poem from her manuscript, All the Dead Goats.