Hello School of the Arts Research Arts and Teaching Students –
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Life After the MFA
Independent Publishers’ Panel
Tuesday, March 4th
413 Dodge Hall, 8PM
featuring
Rob Spillman
TIN HOUSE BOOKS
Matvei Yankelevich
UGLY DUCKLING PRESS
Martha Rhodes
FOUR WAY BOOKS
Jill Schoolman
ARCHIPELAGO PRESS
Richard Nash
SOFTSKULL PRESS
Also see the attached flyer.
And mark your calendars for our next Life After the MFA event:
Tuesday, March 25th
Dodge 413, 8PM
Panel featuring Editors from Major Publishing Houses
Come gaze on the face of the editor who will publish your best-selling memoir/novel/masterpiece;
editors from Random House, Harcourt, Ecco/HarperCollins, and FSG will be participating, among others.
Independent Press Panel pdf
An informative message from our “man on the inside” David Harrington at CU Arts:
Dear SoA Student, Research Arts Student, or Alum,
You’re an artist. You need people to know about your art. The Arts Initiative knows these people.
And the Arts Initiative wants to know you too. Please keep in touch at Columbia and beyond.
The Arts Initiative
www.cuarts.columbia.edu
alumniarts@columbia.edu
The School of the Arts takes pride in presenting the list of its February 2008 graduates, who, as of Wednesday, February 13, having met or surpassed the requirements of their respective programs, have thereby been awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Congratulations to all these students. We wish them success in all their future endeavors. Should you be in contact with one or more of them, please take a moment to acknowledge their hard work and to wish them well.
Masters of Fine Arts in Writing:
Justin Daniel Belmont
David Samuel Englander
Christopher John Evans
Michelle Theresa Heinz
Luis Rafael Rodriguez
Sandra Rachel Schmuhl
In case you haven’t been taking advantage of these amazing visiting writers back at Dodge 413 last Fall, take a look at the power-packed Spring Semester. Ordinarily, when you read copy like “power-packed” you probably are thinking that someone is trying to sell you something, perhaps something they don’t want that much. Well, I’ll be there even if you skip out — and I’ll be there with bells on. (Which apparently is an expression derived from bells on a fancy carriage — well, I’ll be carrying microphones and video cameras, which are almost as much things hanging off me as I can handle.)
Valentine’s Day with Jonathan Lethem wasn’t my original fantasy (at least not one I’ve admitted to myself), but surely my girlfriend will understand…. He gives good lecture.
Make sure to get there early enough to get a seat at these — last season a good many of the lectures were standing room only. I caught Ben begging for a seat himself so that he could stay in the room after introducing a writer. I’ll be there recording most of these for podcast here and at CUArts in the near future — along with the professor/event videos I will be shooting this Spring.
Below is Ben’s email — and these are open to RATS and alumni. Though heaven help us if everyone hears about George Saunders and the event is held in Dodge 413. You can kinda hear the lecture from the sidewalk outside of Dodge, but I don’t think you’d like to be forced to do so.
–Matt
Dear Students:
Welcome back. Hope you all had a restful and productive break. Below is the spring schedule for the creative writing lecture series, which we’re very excited about. We’ll keep you posted on talk titles as we learn them. Hope to see you all soon.
Ben
January:
Ander Monson: Thursday, Jan 31st @ 7pm, Dodge #413
“Essay as Hack”
February:
Philip Gourevitch: Wednesday, February 6th @ 7pm, Dodge #413
Jonathan Lethem: Thursday, February 14th @ 7pm, venue to be announced
Kurt Anderson: Thursday, February 21st @ 7pm, Dodge #413
March:
Peter Gizzi: Thursday, March 6th @ 7pm, Dodge #413
Kathryn Harrison: Wednesday, March 12th @ 7pm, Dodge #413
April:
George Saunders: Thursday, April 17th @ 7pm, venue to be announced
Joanna Scott: Thursday, April 24th @ 7pm, Dodge #413
From an announcement from David Beeman, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Admissions:
The School of the Arts takes pride in presenting the list of its October 2007 graduates, who, as of Wednesday, October 17, having met or surpassed the requirements of their respective programs, have thereby been awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Congratulations to all these students. We wish them success in all their future endeavors. Should you be in contact with one or more of them, please take a moment to acknowledge their hard work and to wish them well.
Here are the Masters of Fine Arts in Writing:
Fayne Abbott Ansley
Pranav Behari
Jeff Bender
Augustine Frances Blaisdell
Thomas Earl Blaylock
Michelle Lin Brotherton
Marie Elizabeth Elia
David Stewart Francis
Ruth Weir Galm
Cristine Marie Gonzalez
Nadine Sarah Gorelik
Alena Bonnell Graedon
Matthew Lewis Hamity
Melissa Mary Heltzel
Adam Robert Katz
Adina Caryn Kay
Doretta Suk-Chong Lau
Elyse Kea Lightman
Krista Elena Manrique
Filip Marinovich
Joshua Martinsons
Ashley Donielle Murray
Matthew Evan Passet
Gabriel Roman Pilar
Miriam Baker Schiffer
Anna Veronica Selver-Kassell
Chandler Klang Smith
Patricia Elisabeth Sonntag
Rhena Tantisunthorn
Stacy Marlena Torres
Daniel Muray White
Johnathan Donald Wilber
Alexis Sathre Wolff
We encourage all of our October 2007 graduates and their loved ones to participate in our commencement festivities on Wednesday, May 21, 2008.  For information regarding the commencement ceremonies, make sure to visit the SoA Home Page beginning in late March at http://arts.columbia.edu.
Intermediate/Advanced Fiction
Are you almost ready to commit to a piece of work but need help deciding what you want to focus on? Do you have a novel or short story still in the beginning stages? We will focus on figuring out what you really want to write, and et it started, or work on something you have written, and make it ’shine.’ The class will be structured around weekly writing workshops, in-class exercises, and constructive criticism from both the teacher and your peers. Finally, you will be able to tell your ‘big’ story! This class is designed for you to continue on to Advanced Fiction.
Instructor: Rachel Sherman
10 times on Tuesdays
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Oct 9 – Dec 11
$350.00 – Member
$400.00 – Non-Member
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Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. (Program room assignments will be available at the JCC Customer Service Desk, in the lobby of the Samuel Priest Rose Building.)
http://www.jccmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1532&progid=16304
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Congrats to each of you!
– Soarats.org crew
To All School of the Arts Students, Faculty and Staff:
The School of the Arts takes pride in presenting the list of its May 2007 graduates, who, as of Wednesday, May 16, having met or surpassed the requirements of their respective programs, have thereby been awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Congratulations to all these students. We wish them success in all their future endeavors. Should you be in contact with one or more of them, please take a moment to acknowledge their hard work and to wish them well.
Writing Masters of Fine Arts:
S. Kolt Beringer
Catherine L. Despont
John Ira Ebersole
Zoe Ilana Finkel
Devon Michael Gallegos
Michael Kern Johnson II
James Thomas Keane
Robin Elizabeth Kirman
Charlene Yu-Jean Kwon
Kara Beth Levy
Amanda Joy McCormick
Benjamin Michael Miller
Jacob Edward Osterhout
Yvette Jazmin Siegert
Lytton Jackson Smith
Jessica Danielle Stiles
Stephanie Lynn Taylor
Betony Elizabeth Toht
Alexander Isaac Waxman
Helene Deborah Wecker
Yes, this is a bizarre exercise, but it fits with a couple of messages I’ve been getting from Writing Division folks over this past year — and what better time to explore the bizarre and non-urgent than after the semester is complete.
So the purpose of this discussion — to be held in the Soarats Forums that you can reach by following the link at the bottom of this blogpost — is to brainstorm a scaffolded list of books of poetry/poets/poems that prose writers might read to feel a bit more native in the wilderness of non-prose.
By a “scaffold” I refer to its pedagogical rather than execution sense: a prose writer/reader might want to start reading some of the poets in Column A (Anne Carson, Luis Glück, TS Eliot, Pound, Larkin, etc.) as a means of getting the background to tackling Column B (Michael Palmer, Jacques Roubaud….), eventually reaching Column Z (John Ashbery or someone). There are a number of highways and bi-ways — New York School, language-poets (do they still have those), etc. — so this discussion will generate different kinds of lists with specific purposes. (What order of John Ashbery books to read, what order of Pound’s Cantos to read, a chronological list of poems to prove that the language poets deserve a negative or positive reaction, etc.)
This is also of course an evangelical opportunity for the poets — you’ve been hording the good stuff and us prose-emphasizing readers/writers are eager to climb up the mountain for your sage advice. It is safely assumed that a good poet can tackle reading — and writing — sophisticated prose, but many of us prose folks are flummoxed when we try to read poems in the same darned literary magazines our stories, essays, etc appear in (or at least aim that they appear).
This entire discussion emerges from this comment (and I’ll leave it anonymous for now):
“I read poetry in college — TS Eliot, Pound, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, etc. — but now I pick up a good literary magazine and take a look at a poet who has been getting a lot of attention, and I feel like I haven’t learned how to read this stuff.” (Anonymous)
And just to get this out of the way, go ahead and point at me and laugh and say “that guy doesn’t understand poetry/what an un/sophisticate” so we don’t waste any more energy talking trash.
So click below and go crazy.
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