Pacific University MFA in Writing Program

Rhony Bhopla, MFA Alum, will be featured at the Natsoulas Gallery tonight with Mariam Ahmed.

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1335: Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris Today’s poem is Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris.

The Slowdown's feature today is a poem by MFA Poetry Faculty, Danusha Laméris.

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This Living His bony knees scrapetheir slow way towardthe passenger seat becausethere’s no rushing thisliving;the body is a congenitalgift, a boulder to impelthrough each day, its facelimned in rough beaut

Rita Tiwari, Poet and PacU MFA Alumna, has a poem in Portland Review: portlandreview.org/this-living/

So happy to learn that my story, “Motherlode,” was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50! With gratitude to @cincinnatireview for publishing it last spring in the miCRo series - which was an honor in itself🤩 congrats to all!

Tampa Review 69 - University of Tampa Press Fiction by Mara Beneway, Caroline Bodian, and Kevin Mulligan. Poetry by Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Gaylord Brewer, Jonathan Cannon, Jo Ann Clark, Kevin Clark, Chloe Cook, Sharon Dolin, Edward Mayes, My...

Laura Rosenthal, Poet and PacU MFA Alumna, has a poem published in The Tampa Review: utampapress.org/product/tamp...

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Rhony Bhopla, PacU MFA Alum, is featured in conversation with E.W. Conundrum Demure on Troubadours and Raconteurs/Radio Free Brooklyn. You are invited to listen: www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/show-archive...

SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW - Home Southern Humanities Review is the literary quarterly housed in the Department of English at Auburn University. Founded in 1967, SHR publishes fiction, poetry, and essays.

Pacific MFA Alumni Allison C. Macy-Steines and Rhony Bhopla have literary pieces published in Southern Humanities Review 58.3

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Kwame Dawes: "Envy" A poem by Kwame Dawes: "He stands before the mountain / and confesses, “I do not know / the woman I love."

Kwame Dawes's "Envy" in @yalereview.bsky.social

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Issue Fifty-Three: A Conversation with Kwame Dawes - The Adroit Journal A Conversation with Kwame Dawes BY RASAQ MALIK GBOLAHAN

A conversation with Kwame Dawes:

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Thanks to novelist Deborah Reed '12, we have this to announce!

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Registration closes on June 30 and we have a few spots left in our morning workshops. Grab your seat and join our writing community for three life-changing days this summer in Mendocino!

Visit MCWC.org for details and to register.
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"Peacekeeper" by Rhony Bhopla, Pacific MFA Alum, sold in this year's Big Names Small Art Auction at the Crocker Art Museum! Proceeds go to exhibitions and educational programs.

The Best Books of 2025 (So Far) Including the millennial answer to bell hooks’s All About Love.

Omar El Akkad at Vulture!
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Kwame Dawes, Pacific MFA Faculty, curates and edits selections from the Digital Schooner Global Fusion Series, Volume 98. No. 2! Just released! prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer...

The Fight & The FiddleCreate a website or blog at WordPress.com Volume 8 Issue 4 of The Fight & The Fiddle features Shara McCallum

Shara McCallum is featured in the Spring 2025 The Fight and The Fiddle. The critical essay, "No Ruined Stone: Poems of Archival Imagination and Active Waiting" is by Pacific MFA Alum, Rhony Bhopla. fightandfiddle.com/issues/shara...

A Poem by Laura Vitcova Felled   My arms once covered in needles like a porcupine, now boughs   sweeping the dirt beneath your feet I pine for you, I am willing   to be eaten by mold, I am letting worms bri…

A Poem by Laura Vitcova
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#poetry #life #nature #relationships #love

So honored to have three poems featured in this issue. #grateful #poet

Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb - Public Books “Each novel is always a new project, somewhat experimental, building on earlier obsessions but departing from them formally.”

Siddhartha Deb, Pacific MFA Faculty, is featured in a conversation with Amit Baishya. The article was commissioned by Nicholas Dames, co-editor in chief of Public Books. www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...

Graphic featuring the cover of BLADE BY BLADE by Danusha Laméris, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “They Say the Hearts Wants” that reads: So here’s a list, mine: tall grasses, blowing in the wind, / swirled glass cups, peacock blue, bought in Lebanon. / Fog off the California cliffs, dark boulders on the shore.

Graphic featuring the cover of THE TRADITION by Jericho Brown, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “Crossing" that reads: I’m not crossing / To cross back. I’m set / On something vast. It reaches / Long as the sea. I’m more than a conqueror, bigger / Than bravery. I don’t march. I’m the one who leaps.

Graphic featuring the cover of INCORRECT MERCIFUL IMPULSES by Camille Rankine, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from ”After the Fire, I Ask Myself” that reads: Love note penned on the back of my hand: Little girls prefer pink, gentlemen. Cowards put their hands up.

Graphic featuring the cover of KING ME by Roger Reeves, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “After Love” that reads: Pretend this is the first time you’ve seen me/ reach into the hollow of a tree and snap a comb / of honey from a hive. Let’s pretend it doesn’t sting.

We strive to keep Black voices centered year-round, and we are honored to celebrate just a few of those we love this February.

Today we give shout-outs to the talents of: DANUSHA LAMÉRIS (@danushalameris.bsky.social), JERICHO BROWN, CAMILLE RANKINE (@camillerankine.bsky.social), and ROGER REEVES.

When It's Darkness on the Delta by W. Ralph Eubanks will be out on January 13, 2026 (Beacon Press). : www.beacon.org/When-Its-Dar...

“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity We speak with the award-winning author and journalist Omar El Akkad, whose new book about the war on Gaza is titled One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The book expands on a viral tw...

Pacific University MFA Nonfiction Faculty, Omar el Akkad, speaks with Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now:

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Reading James Baldwin, Session 4: W. Ralph Eubanks & Eddie Glaude, Jr.—Notes of a Native Son - The Authors Guild I want to be an honest man and a good writer. Published in 1955, the essay collection Notes of a Native Son is Baldwin’s attempt “to understand the contradictions of his country,” writes Eddie Glaude,...

Pacific University MFA Faculty W. Ralph Eubanks will join Eddie Glaude, Jr. to discuss James Baldwin’s debut essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955). When: Wednesday, May 21 at 2 p.m. ET. Registration: authorsguild.org/event/readin...

Poetry Book Society Summer 2025 Bulletin The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our mem...

Catherine-Esther Cowie, Pacific MFA Alum, received a special commendation for her poetry collection Heirloom. The commendation is in the Poetry Book Society's Summer Bulletin 2025 by Inpress Books. Selections were made by Victoria Kennefi and Yomi Ṣode.
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Slab City: "We're All Here Because We Ain't All There." An outlaw biker, a fugitive mother of three, a cancer survivor and a bearded lady. Profiles from the Last Free Place In America.

Part 2 of my series on Slab City. In this post I’ve profiled 4 residents—a biker, a bearded lady, a cancer survivor and a mother on the run from the law.

These are the forgotten dramas of the American story. Life on the margins in every sense.

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If you submit creative nonfiction to TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE, here's a group of readers awaiting your work—Pacific MFA students and alumni!

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Student Veronica Bettencourt in the Crab Orchard Review! (pp. 11-12)!

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Shara McCallum Reading Poems from BEHOLD YouTube video by Alaska Quarterly Review

Shara McCallum reads from her forthcoming poetry collection "Behold" at the Alaska Quarterly Review! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-0...

RHONY BHOPLA, Peacekeeper Rhony Bhopla Peacekeeper 2021 Acrylic paint and collage on paper with gloss. 12 x 12 in. Fair market value: $400

Pacific University MFA Alum Rhony Bhopla has an art piece titled "Peacekeeper" up for bid at the Big Names Small Art Auction. Proceeds go toward supporting exhibitions and programs at the Crocker Art Museum. See Peacekeeper here:

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New fiction that sadly seems relevant as India concocts a war with Pakistan.

Angels over Chattarpur, by Siddhartha Deb When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and WhatsApp posts, military measures must be taken.

Siddhartha Deb in World Literature Today

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