Several of our current and recently graduated master’s students have been published! Please view the list below for information about the authors and links to their publications:
Tag: poetry
Submerging into the Necropastoral || An Introduction for Joyelle McSweeney
BathHouse Events had the honor of hosting Joyelle McSeeney for our Fall 2022 reading series. The event featured compelling reading and discussion of McSweeney’s most recent collection of poetry Toxicon & Arache (2020). This BathHouse Event ran concurrently with the Creative Writing @ EMU graduate course CRTW 522: Intense Life Writing taught by Dr. Rob…
Mark Nowak | Social Poetics | An Introduction by Andi Pontiff
This past autumn, BathHouse Events had the honor of hosting author Mark Nowak for our Fall 2021 reading series. The event featured compelling reading and discussion of Nowak’s recent book, Social Poetics (Coffee House 2020). For Nowak, “social poetics” is a way to think and practice the relation between poetry and social action, as it strengthens the …
Poetics a la Shira Dentz | The Sun a Blazing Zero |
When one undertakes a close reading of Shira Dentz’ fifth full-length book of poetry, the sun a blazing zero, published in 2019 by Dialogos Books and Lavender Ink, many questions emerge. I was lucky to have an opportunity to attend Dentz’ reading via Zoom, through the auspices of BathHouse Reading and Event Series and the…
November 12 Join us at Poet Rachel Levitsky’s Reading
Tomorrow at 11:00 am, the Poet Rachel Levitsky will be giving a reading and talk in Professor Carla Harryman’s Creative Writing class. Places are still available for guests to enjoy this reading via Zoom. Email Prof. Harryman to register and request a link to the event.
A Conversation with Rosie Stockton, Poet and Alum
Rosie Stockton, (they/them/theirs) is Alumni from the Creative Writing Program, 2017 who is currently pursuing a PhD at University of California, Los Angeles. They (RS) take a few moments to chat with current blog writer/admin staffer, Christina-Marie Sears (BH). We discuss their work, current practice, and time at Eastern Michigan University. Proudly we share this…
Presenting Shayla Harris
The title of Shayla’s Capstone is Mirror of Freedom. “This capstone project is a collection of poems, sound poems, and performances about the journey of finding freedom by looking at myself in the mirror. “ Shayla Harris is double majoring in Creative Writing and Arts and Entertainment Management. She is an African American woman and Christian who…
Presenting Sierra Brocklehurst
Sierra’s Capstone Project is entitled: Too Many Projects and Not Enough Time: A Writer’s Story. This is a hybrid work of narrative, prose, and poetry addressing the nature of writing from a fictional university student’s point of view. Sierra is a third-year student majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Electronic Media and Film Studies…
Review of Janet Kauffman’s, Eco-dementia and Joanna Ruocco’s Fiction Reading
By: Maria Kornacki The main takeaway I got from Janet Kauffman’s Eco Dementia reading was the power of bringing people and environments together through writing. Not only through writing, but through visual media to help make connections to our world. Janet Kauffman began her reading performance with defining her own term “Eco-Dementia” as being the…