Truman Creative Writing Community

09/03/2021

Free events from ReadOut!

Join us this month of September for three new interactive events. SAVE THE DATES

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01/19/2021

Truman alum Andy Harper reviewed my book for Rain Taxi!

Prairie Architecture Monica Barron Golden Antelope Press ($15.95) by Andy Harper The first collection from a seasoned poet of place, Monica Barron’s Prairie Architecture is particularly good pandemic reading. To write the rural Missouri college town where Barron is a professor of English and to li...

11/24/2020

You got a problem with this?

11/09/2020

Hey I think I saw somebody doing this at Kirksville Farmers Market

On May 25, 2020, I got an email: Poet wanted for corporate zoom event! The sender, it turned out, was the event coordinator at a multinational tech company. She was looking for ways to keep her emp…

09/22/2020

Eileen Myles just about to get cranked up on The Strand Bookstore page LIVE

Register now for Strand Book Store's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Tuesday September 22, 2020 at 7:00 pm EDT.

09/08/2020

This book launch starts at 7pm. Go to eventbrite and get a free pass in! Capacity has been upped to 500 people! And if you have kids who are budding naturalists this would be okay for them too! This book is essays, but she is an amazing poet!

Milkweed Editions and the Asian American Writers' Workshop host a virtual launch party for Aimee Nezhukumatathil's WORLD OF WONDERS.

08/25/2020

Bradbury fans, this is for you! Speculative nonfiction fans, this is for you, too!

The form of things as they were, as they are, and as they will come to be

06/29/2020

This is good advice. Don't get stuck in one story

Thread by : When I'm teaching students how to write about trauma, I often ask them to carry five other stories about themselves ion. Like a verbal medicine bundle: there's what happened to you, how you survived, and carry some other stories,…

06/27/2020

Here's some Jericho Brown for your evening!

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown writes for the Book Review about life during the pandemic.

06/08/2020

Hey everyone! We need to be thinking ahead to fall. Will we have readings in the flesh? If not, how should we manage them? Whether they are in the flesh or not, we might want to think about how to make them available to those who can't make the event but want to see what we're up to.

04/01/2020

Hey all!

I want to invite you to this Thursday night’s special online reading hosted by this week’s Visiting Ofstad writer, poet Amanda Nadelberg. We always love to share our Ofstad visitors with the Truman community in a public setting, but obviously we are unable to come together in our usual warm way.



Instead of a typical poetry reading with one featured writer, Amanda asked that we join together in an online gathering where we’re invited to bring a poem of our own (or someone else’s) that we’d like to put into this moment of uncertainty and share with our literary community.



This Thursday, April 2nd at 7:30pm we’ll have a mass Zoom meeting:



Meeting ID: 413-646-209

Meeting URL: https://zoom.us/j/413646209?pwd=RlJLQVhaSk5ielVhUFQxTzUrQzRqdz09

Meeting password (REQUIRED): 688028



Obviously, you’re most welcome to attend and listen to an evening of poems without reading one yourself. It would be an elixir for us all just to know you’re there and we’re together again.

Please contact me if you have any questions.
Take real care,

Jamie

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