by Robin Gow, Editor-at-Large In the light sporadic rain, we huddled under a few people’s umbrellas outside the Dismantle, Change, Build Center in Portland, Oregon for a reading entitled SO Homo/no FOMO on the first night of the …
by Robin Gow, Editor-at-Large I shook hands with CA Conrad across a counter as they poured sapphire blue glitter onto a newspaper. They had paused to do their nails before just before beginning …
by Clara Burghelea Inside the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. It's a Friday night, raining cats and dogs. On the 6th floor, a warm room full of books and twelve aspiring young poets. We are taking a …
by Clara Burghelea Since my arrival in New York, I have heard people talking about Hamilton. I was embarrassed to admit I had not seen any musical in Manhattan. But I was interested in this one, …
by Clara Burghelea Of all of the literary myths, my favorite one is “Poetry is what is lost in translation.” When I first read about Idra Novey about a year or so ago, I was not …
by Clara Burghelea I first read Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel Interpreter of Maladies, while I was taking my MA in Translation Studies, at the suggestion of my English professor, a visiting scholar from India. He asked me …
by Clara Burghelea Jacqueline Woodson was the kind of child who wrote on everything and everywhere. She was not sure about becoming a writer, but she had this urge to write. Eventually, this lead to something: …
Burhan Sönmez on story-telling, craft, and taking flight by Efe Tanci Writers from Turkey have been on western literature’s radar after The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a Turkish writer, Orhan Pamuk, in 2006. Since …
Martha Cooley, our Associate Professor of English and fiction instructor extraordinaire, is the author of The Archivist, a best-seller published in a dozen foreign markets, and Thirty-Three Swoons, also published in Italian. She is an …
Fiona Maazel was the Adelphi MFA visiting writer for Fall 2014, is the author of the novels Last Last Chance and Woke Up Lonely. She is winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction and a …
In Spring 2014 Adelphi University’s MFA program of Creative Writing welcomed visiting writer, John Murillo, whose first poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie was a finalist for both the 2011 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and …
Last spring Adelphi University’s MFA program of Creative Writing welcomed John Murillo, whose first poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie was a finalist for both the 2011 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open …
