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  • Alumni Weekend MAPH Reunion—Early Registration!

    Hey MAPHers! Alumni Weekend is quickly approaching which means that the MAPH Reunion is coming up! This year we’ll be meeting on Friday, June 5 for cocktails and appetizers at Bin 36, located at 339 N. Dearborn in downtown Chicago. Tickets are only $10 each, but if you register by Friday, April 24 you will…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Alumni Happy Hour Returns!

    Hey afterMAPHers, once again it has been far too long since we gathered for a MAPH alumni happy hour, but fear not. This is about to be rectified, and you can help by joining your fellow MAPH alums at Sullys House. One of your fellows, Peter Adams (MAPH ’04), is the GM at this recently…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • How I Sold My Thesis

    Our alum Anna Jarzab, AM ’07, has just sold her thesis to a publisher, and she has graciously taken the time to share a little bit of that adventure with us. -Braden Even though I knew I wanted to write a creative thesis for MAPH, I never intended to write the project I ended up…

  • MAPH Alum Anna Piepmeyer: Awesome and Nerdy

    Anna Piepmeyer (MAPH ’07) is the Ambassador of Awesomeness for the new peer networking site, Dweeber (think of her as the equivalent to Tom of MySpace; if you join the site, she is automatically your friend). This site, however, distances itself from other peer networking sites, sites that usually serve as distractions to things like…

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