News from the School of IAS
Category: Creative Writing and Poetics
Natalie Singer named to 35 over 35 list of debut authors
MFA alum Natalie Singer (’16) is thrilled to be recognized among 35 authors over age 35 who published their first book this year. 35 over 35 is an alternative to the publishing industry’s fixation on youth, acknowledging that few authors find early success. Singer’s memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation was published last March by Hawthorne Books. Says Singer ...
December 4, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed by UW News on THE BOOK
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk’s work on The Book (2018, MIT Press) is highlighted in a new interview on the UW News site. The article, “Papyrus scrolls to Kindle and beyond: UW professor pens meditation on ‘the book,’” begins: “What is a “book” in the digital age — and what will it become? In a new book of her own, Amaranth Borsuk discusses the idea of “the book” through its incarnations as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the bound sheets of a codex on to the hyperlinked, multimedia format of the digital age.” Read the full interview.
November 29, 2018
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung present “Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud”
IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung presented their current research project "Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud" at the 32nd annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)—Out of Mind—in Toronto, Canada, November 15-18, 2018. The project involves ...
November 28, 2018
Ted Hiebert presents a meditation on “When thought insults itself”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert presented a meditation on "When thought insults itself" at the Tuning Speculation 6 conference—Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult—in Bloomington, IN, November 2-4, 2018. The paper argues ...
November 28, 2018
Nicole McCarthy selected as 2018 GAP Award recipient by Artist Trust
IAS Alum Nicole McCarthy has received GAP Award funding from Artist Trust to begin her second hybrid book focusing on marriage, divorce, and shame. She will spend a week on a writing retreat to generate new material and the project will culminate with a public divorce performance in spring 2019. An MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum ...
October 23, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk’s writing featured on The Writing Platform
An excerpt from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's The Book is currently featured on British website The Writing Platform, an online resource for writers. Covering "the book as recombinant structure," it details the way material books can be interactive and multi-sequential—features we tend to associate with the digital.
October 11, 2018
Ted Hiebert publishes “Efforts of Ambiugity”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published “Efforts of Ambiugity” in the edited collection, Something Other than Lifedeath—Catalyst: S.D. Chrostowska (edited by David Cecchetto for the Catalyst Book Series at Noxious Sector Press). The essay is a meditation on relational metaepistemology, creativity, and the performance of ambiguity.
September 24, 2018
Ted Hiebert publishes “Excerpts from the Library of Babel: A meditation on writing, electricity, and ghosts”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published “Excerpts from the Library of Babel: A meditation on writing, electricity, and ghosts” in Performance Research vol. 23 (On Writing and Performance). The essay reflects on Jorge Luis Borges’s story of a library—so vast it contains a copy of every book that has ever (or could ever) be ...
September 5, 2018
MFA alum Amanda Hurtado publishes and exhibits
Amanda Hurtado (’17) has been busy this summer! She published two poems in the summer issue of Witness magazine and is beginning her second year as a Ph.D. student...
August 28, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk interviews local poets
To extend the conversations begun by her MIT Press volume The Book, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk recently staged conversations with several local poets whose creative practice includes publishing, book arts, and performance. On July 12, she spoke with Doug Nufer, whose work includes Oulipo-style constraint based writing, and Shin Yu Pai, whose practice encompasses ...
August 23, 2018