Bob Hicok
This Clumsy Living won Bob Hicok the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from Library of Congress.
The Bobbitt Prize recognizes the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years. Previous winners include James Merrill, Louise Gluck, A.R. Ammons, Kenneth Koch, Frank Bidart, Alice Fulton, B.H. Fairchild, and W.S. Merwin. Bob is also the recipient, in 2008, of a Guggenheim Fellowship. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Most recently, Bob has been awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from The National Endowment for the Arts. Bob teaches in the MFA Program |
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Nikki Giovanni
University Distinguished Professor of English, Nikki Giovanni, won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from Chicago Public Library. The award pays tribute to a writer whose work has helped enhance the public's awareness of the written word. Previous honorees include David Mamet, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joyce Carol Oates. Nikki's best-selling new book, Hip Hop Speaks to Children, has won an NAPPA Gold Award. Only 30 entries out of 375 were awarded the gold. NAPPA is the National Parenting Publications Award. Nikki Giovanni teaches in the MFA Program.
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K.M.A. Sullivan
K.M.A. Sullivan (2011 MFA) has published poems recently in Breadcrumb Scabs:A Poetry Magazine, and PANK, and has poems forthcoming in Controlled Burn, Gertrude, Right Hand Pointing, and Tipton Poetry Journal. Katherine was a finalist for the Goldfarb Family Fellowship for Nonfiction Writers and was recently awarded a two-week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Raina Fields |
Raina Fields (2012 MFA) has an E-Review of the poetry collection Canticle of Idols forthcoming on Rattle's website: http://www.rattle.com/blog/2009/10/canticle-of-idols-by-raina-leon and a review forthcoming for Mom Egg Magazine about Jane Satterfield's new memoir Daughter of Empire: A Year in Britain and Beyond http://www.themomegg.com/themomegg/Reviews.html |
About Unwavering: "The poems in Gyorgyi Voros's Unwavering unfurl in the interstices between nature and culture, probing the human relationship to nonhuman nature as we live it now at the start of the twenty-first century. Of these poems, John Ashbery writes: "The music of Voros's poetry is, in Conrad Aiken's words, 'more than music'. It's the motion of life and lots of things in it thinking, changing one s mind, forgetting and remembering." Ann Lauterbach writes that "Voros demonstrates the gorgeous surfeit of the natural world. In sight and sound, the particulars of habitat come to life, almost breaking the confines of language, reaching for, but never quite attaining, the transcendent."
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Gyorgyi teaches undergraduate literature and creative writing courses, and conducts a creative writing practicum for MFA students. |
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The New River, the MFA Program's student-edited online journal of digital writing and art, has been selected by the Electronic Literature Organization for inclusion in the Library of Congress's Internet Archive Project. The Library of Congress will now provide a link to New River and periodically "crawl" our site to stay updated. The purpose of the project is to archive significant sites for future generations.