MFA News & Events
Internationally Acclaimed Poet and Classicist, Anne Carson to Perform at the Ford Center on October 23, at 7p.m.
The internationally acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson and her partner Robert Currie will come to the University of Mississippi soon. On Tuesday, October 23, at 7 p.m., they will perform two experimental, collaborative pieces that involve Carson’s poetry along with dance and film. The titles of the pieces are “Cassandra Float Can” and “Possessive […]
Bob Hicok to Read on October 10, at 7p.m. in Bishop 107
“Faces do a funny little dance when you say you’re a poet, unless you’re telling another poet,” says Bob Hicok. “It’s almost like saying, ‘I have eczema.’” Bob Hicok is the author of six poetry collections including Words for Empty and Words for Full (2010), This Clumsy Living (2007), and Insomnia Diary (2004). A recipient of five Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim and two NEA Fellowships, Hicok’s […]
The M.F.A. Program celebrates the arrival of our newest professor, Derrick Harriell!
Check out his new interview in Prairie Schooner here!
CONGRATS Bondurant Prize Winners!
We had a record number of submissions for the English Department’s Creative Writing Awards this year, and the submissions were very, very strong. Please join me in congratulating the winners and honorable mentions. Bondurant Prize, Poetry, Wendy Buffington for “Reflecting Pools” Honorable Mention: Michael Shea for “The Children” Bondurant Prize, Fiction, Rachel Smith for “Top […]
Traci Brimhall Selected as 2012 Summer Poet in Residence
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery(Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Missouri […]
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly Named UM Humanities Teacher of the Year
… Honoree sets reading, lecture for Oct. 27 OXFORD, Miss. – Passion for poetry and teaching have earned one of the University of Mississippi’s most beloved professors another honor. Beth Ann Fennelly, associate professor of English and direct...
CWA: Tom Franklin wins the CWA Gold Dagger 2011
Tom Franklin (pictured above) was named winner of the 2011 CWA Gold Dagger, for “Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter” published by Macmillan. The announcement was made at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards. The judges explained why they had ch...