Arizona State University MFA Program in Creative Writing

It's time again for our next installment of the Reading Series. Hope you can make it!

Professor Matt Bell is named one of Phoenix's 40 under 40!

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ASU's Piper Center celebrates local writers Getting a bunch of high school students to show up for a poetry reading on a Friday afternoon in the summer is quite a feat. Actually getting them excited about it is another level of accomplishment entirely. Peoria-based poet and Liberty High English teacher Cody Wilson, an ASU alumnus, managed to....

"Invitation to a Bonfire," a psychological thriller by ASU alum Adrienne Celt (MFA 2012), leads off Nylon's list of "46 great books to read this summer." http://ow.ly/m0u630keAjD

excerpt from "Factory Girl," by Aimée Baker In the Silk City, seventeen-year-old Jennie Bosschieter makes ribbons inside a factory. Men work the vats of the neighboring dye houses, coloring so many miles of silk thread that they could connect Paterson, New Jersey, to the Netherlands, the country where Jennie was born, thousands of times and s

Poetry exchange writes ASU professor into 'New Yorker' feature first “Envelopes of Air” appeared May 23 in The New Yorker, as the first of a “new recurring poetry feature that will be published exclusively on the web.” The series is intended as a platform for debuting long-form and experimental work. ASU assistant professor of English Natalie Diaz is one of t...

Things a Girl Should Know by MFA alum Aimée Baker is featured by Verse Daily

Verse Daily: Things a Girl Should Know by Aimée Baker Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

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For the People, By the Poet: Joel Salcido For the People, by the Poet, (FP by the P) is a column written by local street poet Rashaad Thomas that highlights, celebrates and supports local poets in Arizona cities. Poets outside academia often feel excluded from the dialogue that influences diverse communities using new and innovative methods...