We’re pleased to congratulate alumnus Cerissa DiValentino on her acceptance to Boston University’s MFA program as a Helen Deutsch Fellow and Global Fellowship.
Congratulations as well to alumni Sionnan Buckley and Aaron Mueller on completing MFAs at Ohio State University and Bennington College!
Amber Morrison has been accepted to the Popular Fiction graduate program at Emerson College.
Simon Lee has been accepted to the MA English (Thesis) program at McGill University.
Down Low And Lowdown: Timothy Liu’s Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues
Professor Timothy Liu’s latest book of poetry is being published on 4/15 with Barrow Street Press. Pre-order today at the link above! Liu’s previous books of poems include Vox Angelica (Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award), Say Goodnight (PEN/Open Book Beyond Margins Award) and Of Thee I Sing (a Publishers Weekly Book-of-the-Year). Translated into over a dozen languages,
his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review, Washington Post Book World and The Yale Review. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. A reader of occult esoterica, he lives in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY. www.timothyliu.net
SKULL WATER a novel by Professor Heinz Insu Fenkl is on sale 2/7 and is available for pre-order now
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From his starred Publisher’s Weekly review: “Fenkl returns a quarter century after Memories of My Ghost Brother with a mesmerizing narrative of a boy named Insu, whose mother is Korean and whose father served in the U.S. Army. After moving back to Korea from Germany in 1974, teenage Insu finds solace with his friends in rebellious acts like ditching school and selling stolen goods on the black market. Then Insu hears an ancient Korean myth from a monk that imbibing water collected from inside a human skull can cure any disease, prompting him to dig up a corpse in order to find skull water to cure his uncle, Big Uncle, a geomancer who suffers from a gangrenous foot and has been exiled to a cave to die. Fenkl elegantly weaves Insu’s quest, which doesn’t go quite as planned, with a parallel story of Big Uncle in the 1950s during the Korean War. Throughout, the author sustains an otherworldly sense of time and place, and brings to life conceits from Korean folktales (‘Past and future—only the words are different, and if one disposes of them, all things become smooth and easy’). It’s a lovely achievement.”
An excerpt of the novel is available now at Narrative Magazine.
Congratulations to alumnus Demetri Kissel (MA, 2022)on the publication of his short story, “You’ll Never Get Published” in the current issue of Men Matters Online Journal.