Tag: Poetry

  • Michael Robbins’ Poetry Reviewed in n+1

    Michael Robbins, whose poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper’s, and Boston Review among other places, graduated from MAPH in 2004.  His MAPH thesis focused on lyric subjectivity after language poetry. He has since earned a PhD in English from UChicago, published two books, and published critical articles and continues to teach creative writing. Frank Guam just…

  • Pastoral Ambivalence: Recent Poetry by MAPH Grads

    Spring has returned to Chicago, and with it a bounty of new publications by MAPH alumni. Leila Wilson (AM ’03) and Gregory Lawless (AM ’04)  each have a volume of poetry out in which the authors examine their complex relationships with the landscapes of their past and present. Read on for more information in the…

  • post-MAPH publication

    Recent MAPH graduate Hilary Dobel has published a poem in the latest issue of Contrary Magazine, an online journal that was founded by MAPH students and alumni, but now operates independently. In addition to Hilary’s excellent poem, the current issue is full of good things to read, including short fiction and reviews, as well as…

  • 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…