Category: Alumni
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MAPH Reunion!
Dear fellow MAPHers, It’s time once again to eat, drink and be merry, like Social Hours of yore. Come to the fourth annual MAPH reunion on Friday, June 4th: Join fellow alums from all classes, current MAPHers, and favorite faculty to reminisce and reconnect. This is of course part of activity-filled Alumni Weekend that University…
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Missing your coursework? Take a class from a MAPHer!
MAPH alum Hallie Palladino is teaching a six-week playwriting class through Loyola Continuum. Have you been putting your writing on the back burner and you’re looking for a way to push yourself back into it? Do you have an idea that would make a great one-act play? Or maybe you know someone else who might…
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Looking for something to do tonight? Check out Tuesday Funk
If you subscribe to the Irony list (and if you don’t, why not?), you may have already seen this, but just in case some of you don’t, I’m posting it anyway. Tuesday Funk is a monthly reading series that features fiction, essays, and poetry, and has a strong MAPH connection. Not only is one of…
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Remember Social Hour?
Hello Maph Alums! Fall is upon us. The leaves are starting to turn, the nights are growing cooler, and a new group of MAPHers are en route to the University of Chicago’s stoney gates. For them, this means the year of intense and rigorous academics you know so well. And for you? Social hour! We’ll…
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MAPHer Published in Boston Review
Kristin Fitzsimmons (’08), who wrote a collection of poetry for her MAPH thesis, has been published by the Boston Review. The Review published select portions of her thesis in its current edition, which is available online and at the Co-Op/57th St. Books.
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More Hot Press for Poet and MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers
Shaindel Beers (MAPH ’00) is getting a lot of attention for her first collection of poetry, “A Brief History of Time,” released last month from Salt Press. Check out the Chicago Weekly piece on Beers here.
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MAPH alumni speak at writers conference
Last week, alumni poets gathered in Classics 110 to read to a room of current and former students, through the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. The four poets who spoke included two MAPH’ers, Shaindel Beers ’00 and Kiki Petrosino ’04, both reading from forthcoming or recently published collections. Check out The University of Chicago Magazine’s…
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graficionada: a blog about food and other nice things
Another MAPH alum, Jeanelle Hayner (MAPH ’07), has joined the blogoshpere with a blog for budding and hardcore foodies. If you’re into food (and aren’t we all in our way?) stop by and check it out.
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MAPH alum’s poetry published in The New Yorker
Michael Robbins’ poem “Alien vs. Predator” appears in the January 12 New Yorker this winter. Read an interview with Robbins, currently a PhD student in UofC’s English department.
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New Books by 3 MAPH Poets
Poet Shaindel Beers (MAPH 00) has signed a two-book deal for poetry collections with Salt Publishing in London. Her first collection, A Brief History of Time, will be released in February at the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in Chicago. She also hosts a weekly radio show, Translated By, focusing…