{"id":18595,"date":"2020-09-28T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T11:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=18595"},"modified":"2024-12-03T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:04:59","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/graduate\/mfa\/publications","title":{"rendered":"MFA Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our program and students are very active in the small press community, which is a vital lifeline for contemporary poetry and poetics. Some have started their own presses, others have worked with local and national publishers. Our students also regularly have work published in print and online, and several have had books come out of their thesis work. We are incredibly proud of our students\u2019 publications, some of which are featured here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alumni books and publication highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.printcopiesavailable.com\/\">Eric M Acosta<\/a>: <\/strong>Motion<strong> <\/strong>Flesh (Chat Rooms 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alysalevidancona.com\/\">Alysa Levi-D&#8217;Ancona<\/a>:<\/strong> An Absurd Palate (Querencia Press 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cristinacortezauthor.com\/\">Cristina Cortez<\/a>:<\/strong> As I Am \/ Soy Como Soy (Books &amp; Smith 2023), Poems of the Time of the Inca (<em>Books&amp;Smith<\/em>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Emma Carson<\/strong>: The Divide Itself (Chat Rooms 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Amy Hirayama<\/strong>: Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/uw-bothell-mfa-creative-writing-and-poetics-alumni\/poems-for-rebecca-brown\/hardcover\/product-5kpmwe.html?page=1&amp;pageSize=4\">Poems for Rebecca Brown<\/a> (2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolemccarthypoet.com\/\"><strong>Nicole McCarthy<\/strong><\/a>: A Summoning (<em>Heavy Feather Review<\/em>, 2022), Best American Experimental Writing 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisryanlauer.com\/\">Chris Ryan Lauer<\/a>:<\/strong> La Fin du Monde (Rambouillet Press 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolemccarthypoet.com\/\">Nicole McCarthy<\/a>:<\/strong> A Summoning (Heavy Feather Review 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/denisecalvetti.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Denise Calvetti Michaels<\/strong><\/a>: The Things Downriver (Cave Moon Press 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travissharp.info\/\">Travis Sharp<\/a><\/strong>: Yes, I Am a Corpse Flower (<em>Knife Fork Book<\/em>, 2021), Sinister Queer Agenda (chapbook<em>, above\/ground press<\/em>, 2018); one plus one is two ones (artist\u2019s book, <em>Recreational Resources<\/em>, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brekanblakeslee.com\/\">Brekan Blakeslee<\/a>: <\/strong>Probably it will not be okay (Publication Studio 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nataliesingerwrites.com\/\"><strong>Natalie Singer<\/strong><\/a>: California Calling: A Self-Interrogation (<em>Hawthorne Books<\/em>, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kellegracegaddiswriter.com\/\"><strong>Kelle Grace Gaddis<\/strong><\/a>: My Myths (<em>Yellow Chair Press<\/em>, 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/magrats.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Margaret Chiavetta<\/strong>: <\/a>The Alchemist\u2019s Theorem: Sir Duffy\u2019s Promise (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Essay Press \/ UW Bothell MFA Book Contest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also excited to partner with Essay Press on the EP\/UWB MFA book contest, which includes book publication and readings at UW Bothell and in Seattle for selected authors. <a href=\"\/ias\/graduate\/mfa\/publications\/essay-press-book-contest\">Click here for details on the current reading period and previous winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall Convergence eBooks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting in 2021, we inaugurated a publication series in concert with the Fall Convergence on Poetics that features creative prompts provided by our speakers. Designed to share creative process and inspire our community to keep making work, these freely-available ebooks are designed by MFA students and used in our graduate and undergraduate classes.  <a href=\"\/ias\/graduate\/mfa\/publications\/fall-convergence-ebooks\">Learn more and see the publications here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hearing Voices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the MFA launched its own video web journal, Hearing Voices, which showcases the work of our students and alumni. Since performance is a crucial aspect of poetics for many members of our program, Hearing Voices highlights alternative modalities of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Student Presses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Snail Trail Press<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snailtrailpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snail Trail Press<\/a>: An Ecopoetics Press (Woogee Bae, Aya Bram, Amy Jones) (2019-present)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snail Trail turns a curious eye toward the catastrophic violences\u2014whether small or enormous\u2014that penetrate our daily lives and envisions alternate possibilities, to rethink our current ecology and live collectively, consciously, and caringly together, with all our sticky residue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Autodestuct.Online<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Autodestuct.Online (Travis Sharp) (2018-present)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AUTO DESTRUCT<\/strong> is a micropress that publishes ephemeral texts, chapbooks, artists&#8217; books, digital books, audiovisual work, text, image, anti-books, broadsides, PDFs, blank pages. <strong>AUTO DESTRUCT<\/strong> is interested in opening up the contradictory possibilities of an expanded book: a dematerialized &#8220;object&#8221; instantiated through a website, a physical object that can be passively absorbed or actively destroyed, an ephemeral object that is aware of its own disintegration.<strong> AUTO DESTRUCT<\/strong> may auto-destruct and disappear at any moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brightly Press<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Brightly Press: Kelle Grace Gaddis (2015-2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brightly Presses annual anthology,&nbsp;<em>Shake The Tree&nbsp;<\/em>features&nbsp;some of the most recognized poets in the country including CA Conrad, Frank Sherlock, Kate Durbin, Malachi Black, Deborah Woodard, Kit Frick, Maged Zaher, Carolyne Lee Wright, Natasha Moni, TC Tolbert, Sam Ligon, Natalie Diaz, Douglas Kearney, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Cynthia Atkins, Tammy Robacker, Jane L. Carmen, Janice Lee, Matthew Trease, Joseph Musso, Sam Slaughter, David Tomas Martinez, Rebecca Chamaa, Trish Hopkinson, Stacey Levine, Chelsea Jean Werner-Jatzke, Karen Finneyfrock, Scott Driscoll, Ed Harkness, Connie Post, Chen Chen, Kaveh Akbar, Anastacia Renee Tolbert, Kristen Young, Chila Bradshaw Woychik,Clare Johnson, Kate Lebo, Kristen Scott, Carolyne Lee Wright and Christopher P. Locke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Letter[r]Press<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/letter-r.square.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter[r]Press<\/a> <\/em>is a micropress that publishes chapbooks, artist\u2019s books and ephemera, along with Small Po[r]tions. The press promotes the work of Small Po[r]tions contributors and publishes experimental and multi\/intermedia writing and art. The press is run by Sarah Baker, LB Burgher, Lynarra Featherly, Aimee Harrison, and Travis Sharp. Chapbooks include work by shelley feller, Kevin MacClellan, Carrie Bennett, Terri Witek, Jill Magi, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small Portions Journal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/letter-r.square.site\/#cLFqCZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Small Portions Journal<\/a> <\/em>(Sarah Baker, Laura Burgher, Travis Sharp, Aimee Harrison, Tracy Gregory, Lynarra Featherly) (2014-2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Small Po[r]tions<\/em> is published by Letter [r] Press. The journal publishes short[er] work and multi\/intermedia art. Each issue has a print component with a focus on book arts and an online component featuring selections from the print issue along with media work. Print copies of the journal can be purchased here. Currently edited by Sarah Baker, Laura Burgher, and Travis Sharp; former editors include Lynarra Featherly, Aimee Harrison, Breka Blakeslee, and Tracy Gregory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our program and students are very active in the small press community, which is a vital lifeline for contemporary poetry and poetics. Some have started their own presses, others have worked with local and national publishers. 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