We are so thrilled to share that our own Kimiko Hahn is this year’s winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the lifetime achievement award from the Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine!
Presented annually, it is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the nation’s largest literary prizes. Congratulations, Kimiko!!! This is well deserved!
We’re getting ready for a brand new semester with not just classes but a whole lineup of events for your literary pleasure!
Come out to Queens and learn more about publishing, creative nonfiction, black solidarity, and more!
MFA student Sonia Arora is starting off the semester on a high note, with two poems being published: one in Shadowplay, and the other in the brand-new September issue of Elysium Review.
Shadowplay is a print journal, available for purchase on Amazon, but you can read Sonia’s poem in Elysium right here:
https://www.elysiumreview.com/sonia-arora.html
Congratulations, Sonia!
Tuesday, August 29 at 7:00pm
BRAINSTORM is a reading series organized by grad students from the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. Tonight, they present work by legendary (think Rashomon) Japanese writer Akutagawa in a new translation by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell. Joining them are William Pagdatoon and Leor Stylar, whose works are thoroughly unlike, and yet, aligned in risk-taking strategies.
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If you enjoyed the Barbie movie, you’ll love this piece by our own Nicole Cooley about Dream Houses and miniatures that’s just come out in The Guardian!
We are so excited about the opening of the Louis Armstrong House Museum‘s new Louis Armstrong Center, which will house a 60,000-piece archive across the street from where Armstrong himself lived, in Corona, Queens.
We’re very familiar with this archive over at QC: We’ve been partnering with the LAHM for over a decade on a fellowship that allows our MFA in Creative Writing students to gain access to these materials so that they can create new writing projects based on their new insights into Armstrong’s life.
Ultimately, we’re so happy that everyone can see more of these items–homemade tape recordings, scrapbook photo collages, pages and pages of notes. Louis Armstrong is an American icon, and now the people can spend even more time with Louis!
We’re happy this Center is getting the national attention it deserves! If you want to read more (or listen) about this news, you can check out the story on NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186099303/louis-armstrongs-dazzling-archive-has-a-new-home-his
Eugene Lim is the author of the four novels Fog & Car(2008), The Strangers(2013), Dear Cyborgs (2017), Search History (2021) and the chapbook “The Basement Food Court of Forking Paths” (2020). His writings have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Believer, Granta, Fence. Honors include a book award from the Association of Asian American Studies and Big Other’s 2021 Award for Fiction. He runs Ellipsis Press, known for publishing innovative fiction.
Check out all our faculty on our faculty page!
Just a quick shoutout to our graduating class of 2023–we know you’re going on to great things as writers!
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The Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation is opening again for applications in creative nonfiction between April 5th and May 5th.
Located in the most culturally and linguistically diverse county in the nation, the Queens College MFA program attracts students dedicated to crossing boundaries in genre, craft, and language. Queens College offers tracks in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary translation. Students exercise a role in building their writing community through residencies at the Louis Armstrong House Museum and the program’s national literary journal, Armstrong Literary.
Queens College also partners with Cave Canem, Hanging Loose Press, Kundiman, and the college’s ESL program. Teaching opportunities and scholarships are available.
All students study multiple genres and work with award-winning faculty dedicated to their success. In addition to a curricular commitment to excellence in craft, the program emphasizes professional opportunities for students in publishing, arts organizations, and education.
To apply, go to https://www.qc.cuny.edu/ga/applying/ or click here.
Please submit your writing sample to mfadirector@qc.cuny.edu
Our own Nicole Cooley has three poems in this issue of Plume–go check them out!
