Alan Soldofsky @ADSoldof
Poet, Professor and Director of Creative Writing at San Jose State UIniversity tsup.truman.edu/item.asp?itemI… San Jose, CA Joined September 2013-
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Don't miss hearing from these up and coming future authors. There's much talent in SJSU's MFA program. These MFA candidates will be sharing short excerpts from the theses projects.
Our MFA Thesis Reading and Celebration is this Saturday, May 13, 2-4PM! Everyone is invited to share the event link so friends, family and faculty who wish to attend can have access to the reading. (Continue reading the thread below for important information!)
Join CLA on April 13, 2023 7PM @ Hammer Theater for a reading with Hanif Abdurraqib, award winning author of A Little Devil in America and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. The in-person reading is sold out, but will be livestreamed on CLA’s website: clasanjose.org
A much deserved award!
Our MFA Thesis Reading and Celebration is this Saturday, May 13, 2-4PM! Everyone is invited to share the event link so friends, family and faculty who wish to attend can have access to the reading. (Continue reading the thread below for important information!)
You can read my poem "At the Polls" in The Rise Up Review's just released winter issue. Here is the link: riseupreview.org/alan-Alan Soldofsky, Poet
Welcome to the winter issue of the Rise Up Review. Publishing fierce political poetry since the f*cked up presidential election of 2016. riseupreview.org/current-issue #resistanceisfertile #poetry #resist #protest
“Writing makes you unique,” says @SJSU_HA Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Tom Moriarty. "ChatGPT makes you sound like everybody else.” Moriarty answers questions about #ChatGPT — or does the software? — @SJSUNewsCenter. See for yourself: buff.ly/3xjsf2V
Are you a fan of Microfiction? Check out the newest collection - including Pamela Painter's "Empty Day" (published by Pangyrus!)
There are still 3 days left to submit an application to the dual-genre MFA Program at SJSU sanjosemfa.com. We're looking to recruit more qualified Poets. Also Nonfiction writers. You'll have three weeks after the deadline to finish submitting all supporting documents.
The deadline for MFA applications is this Wednesday! Visit sanjosemfa.com for more info!
Just published today "Awful Truths" pangyrus.com/poetry/awful-t… via @Pangyrus
Prospective MFA students! There's still time to apply for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Writing program @SJSU ! The application deadline is February 15th. Visit sanjosemfa.com to learn why you should choose our MFA program!
There is still time to apply to the SJSU MFA Program in Creative Writing, the only fully dual-genre MFA Program in Northern California. The deadline is Wednesday, February 1st. For more information and links, please visit: sanjosemfa.com.
There is still time to time to sign up for the MFA Program Open House on Jan. 23. The MFA in Creative Writing application deadline is Feb. 1. @sjsuenglishdepartment instagram.com/p/CnNpWzCvGRJ/…
Don't forget! The MFA Open House is coming up on Monday, Jan 23 from 5-6:30pm! Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link for this virtual event: forms.gle/9wLZhbjSNmYk2j…
Please sign up if you're looking for a dual genre MFA program in the S.F Bay Area. Applications close Feb. 1. sjsu.edu/english/gradua… #bayareaMFA #SJSU
Prospective MFA students! Please join us for our MFA virtual Open House on Monday, Jan. 23 at 5:00 PM. linkedin.com/pulse/san-jose…
The Steinbeck Center will host their Fall 2022 Steinbeck Fellows reading tomorrow at 7PM PST both via Zoom and in person. Use this link to register to attend via Zoom: bit.ly/3N1PDsv
If you're looking for a Bay Area MFA program, look no further than SJSU. MFA applications open until Feb. 1. To apply go to: calstate.edu/apply/graduate. Join us next week to meet our faculty and students in-person and online. And get your questions answered.
Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email [email protected] to RSVP.
Over the weekend we lost Gerald Stern (Feb. 22, 1925 - Oct. 27, 2022), a major poet. On several Jerry occasions visited us at San Jose State University when I directed the Center for Literary Arts. I loved Jerry as a friend and a member of my extended family.
This is a book that should included in the curriculum.
Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email [email protected] to RSVP.
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