News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Creative Writing and Poetics
MFA Alumni Aya Bram and Allison Morton Collaborate on Artist Website
Aya Bram (MFA '19) and Allison Morton (MFA '17) were friends long before they started their MFAs in Creative Writing & Poetics at UW Bothell. The two met at Ringling College, where they studied the arts and collaborated on films and other projects. After graduation, Morton moved back to Washington to be near family and begin her MFA. The experience was such a positive one ...
January 26, 2022
Rebecca Brown’s The Gifts of The Body adapted for theater performance in Japan
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s 1994 novel, The Gifts of The Body, has been adapted for theater and performed at the Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center in Sapporo, Japan. Brown's novel tells the story of a home-care aid who helps people living with AIDS, and ...
January 14, 2022
Amaranth Borsuk and Ching-In Chen publish new work in Interim
IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Ching-In Chen each have new work in Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics 38.4, a special issue guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson. Of the issue, Black The [Or] Y: Praxis, Sum Unknown, Wilson writes:
January 4, 2022
MFA alum Cliff Watson Publishes New Media Work
Cliff Watson (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, '21) recently published the piece Storage closet in Finnish web journal Nokturno, a longstanding venue for digital, experimental and cross-disciplinary literature. Watson's video artwork includes a virtual and augmented-reality rendering of a scene from his MFA thesis manuscript, 6-foot Pine, a work of hybrid dramaturgy that tells the love story of ...
January 3, 2022
Rebecca Brown publishes You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown‘s new book, You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe, will be published in March 2022 by Chatwin. From the publsiher's site: "In her new nonfiction work..."
December 30, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed for WYBC Yale University Radio
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk recently spoke with artist and educator Brainard Carey for Yale University Radio. She read new poems and discussed motherhood, the pandemic, and the importance of performance to her practice. Carey interviews ...
December 16, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poetics in Periodicities Journal
To accompany their new chapbook, W/\SH: Initial Contact from Above/Ground Press, Amaranth Borsuk and Terri Witek have published "To the Rider: A Double-Tongued Response" in webjournal Periodicities. This poetics statement includes process media and documentation of their collaboration W/\SH ...
December 16, 2021
Two of Ching-In Chen’s poems are published in Kweli
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poems “Inside me, another family” and “Inside me, I write/ a swarm of wants” was published in Kweli. Kweli’s mission is to create a community of Black, Indigenous and POC artists and ...
December 1, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk featured in Bienal Internacional Poesia Oeiras
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was featured this month in the first International Poetry Biennial in Oeiras Portugal, a celebration of poetry under the theme of Power and Democracy. The biennial was held at the Templo da Poesia in the Poets' Park, a public oasis with ...
November 24, 2021
Ching-In Chen joins editorial board of Hyphen Magazine
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has joined the editorial board of Hyphen Magazine as a Visual Arts editor on the Arts and Culture team. Hyphen is a news and culture magazine, media outlet, and community partner that illuminates Asian America through ...
November 23, 2021