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Adaptation at the Smart Museum

The Smart Museum’s exhibition Adaptation opened today, and it includes a new work by ARTV 24103, a collective that includes current MAPHers Laura Heldt and Natasha Long. The work grew out of a practicum taught by Catherine Sullivan — Natasha writes about the project over on the Adaptation blog-cum-catalogue.
The other works in Adaptation — […]

MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers published on NPR web site

MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers (’00) has recently had her poem, “First Love” published on A Prairie Home Companion Web site, an online version of Garrison Keller’s National Public Radio show.
Documenting this great accomplishment and publishing a copy of “First Love,” Beers was interviewed in the Eastern Oregonian in which she talks about getting her […]

The AfterMAPH Literati

Eleven MAPH Alums have contributed to the latest issue of Contrary, an online literary magazine founded and run by MAPH Alums.
In the latest addition there’s fiction by B.E. Hopkins, aka Brandon Hopkins (MAPH ‘03), who’s been living as an expatriate in Paris and writing stories like “The Halcyon Days of War.” Brandon appears alongside some […]

MAPH Alum Blogger Strikes Fame (or at least recognition)

Joel Witmer, graduate of MAPH in 2007 spent many of his MAPH days like the rest of us, slaving at the Regenstein, reading and “unpacking” scholarly articles, trying to make some sort of argumentative claim…about anything, really. But, while the rest of us spent our free time at Jimmy’s, Joel was working furiously on […]

Book Reviews. Book Reviews?

There are seven book reviews in the new issue of Contrary magazine, and five are written by former maphers:
Contrary Reviews
Would you like to join them? If so, please send the editor, Yours Truly, a note to get the details: chicago[at]contrarymagazine[dot]com.
Contrary’s readership seemed to peak with just over 210,000 page views over three months for the […]

New Poems by a Mapher

Shaindel Beers (’00) has two new poems in the latest issue of Thieves Jargon, and like all of Shaindel’s work, they’re terrific:
http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=976
Shaindel is a professor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon.
Please send me news of your publications, or post them here. Eventually I’d like to compile them in an interactive bibliography […]