Tag: News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • MAPH alum curator at MCoP gets rave reviews

    MAPH Alum Karsten Lund’s show “Beyond the Backyard” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography is getting rave reviews for its exploration of the public and private, identity, and the suburban landscape through photographs and videos by more than fifty artists. (Reviews below) Timeout Chicago Chicago Tribune

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • afterMAPH Official Blog Launch

    Hey afterMAPHers! Perhaps it’s been awhile since you’ve talked to your fellow MAPHers (or maybe it was just this morning); in either case we are launching the official afterMAPH blog– a place where you can reunite, share ideas, read about things going on in Chicago, Hyde Park, and the lives of your fellow alums. We…