Creative Writing @ Adelphi

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Poetry reading with Reginald Flood, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, and Laura Swearingen-Steadwell Reginald Flood is a poet and author of Coffle (Aquarius, 2012), and has been published in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Massachusetts Review, and Mythium, among others. Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s collections include Last Seen (University of Wisconsin, 2011), Gravity USA, and In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. Laura Swearingen-Steadwell is the author of the poetry collections How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps and All Blue So Late, forthcoming in December 2017 from Northwestern University Press.

Wedsneday, Nov. 8 @ Alumni House 4-5:30pm The Soapbox Series presents "Narrative of Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Conversation" Come out to see MFA second-year Matt Massaia moderate a conversation between Adelphi Science professors Ivan Dempsey Hyatt and Beth Christensen and Ken Kalfus, author of "Equilateral."

Congrats to our MFA-er, Mj Mcginn, on having his story included in Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2017.

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A happy crowd after the poetry reading of the MFA Class of 2018!

At the end of the Fiction class!

Join us for an afternoon of poetry reading!

The four writers after their wonderful thesis readings!

Join us for the launch of Martha Cooley's newest book, Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss. Following a reading from this enchanting memoir-in-essays, the author will discuss her new work and the art of memoir-writing with author and memoirist, Benjamin Taylor. ABOUT GUESSWORK: Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband to recover from la strage, or “the massacre.” There, in this sun­drenched paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines what we all must confront one day, mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on drinking our morning coffee, loving our life partners, stumbling though a world of such confusing, exquisite beauty? Part memoir, part loving goodbye to an unconventional parent, Guesswork transforms a year in a pastoral hill town into a fierce examination of life, love, death, and, ultimately, release.

Please join the MFA in Creative Writing Program and the English Department to celebrate the work of our graduating students with fiction and creative nonfiction readings from our newest MFA’s. Garden City Campus, the PAC - Room 215 Rachel Bergman’s "Big Comfortable Mommy" Chris Eder’s "no no no no no no no no no" MJ McGinn’s "You Deserve Everything" Jordan Rindenow’s "Beneath the Wreckage" And a special reading of Aaron Bleich’s "I Can't Save Everyone" Followed by a reception and refreshments.