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Congrats to recent poetry alum Justine Defever for becoming the newest writer-in-residence for the Good Hart Artist Residency!

Explore Justine Defever's Poetry Journey in Michigan Explore Justine Defever, a Michigan poet-in-residence, as she creates new works inspired by the beauty of northern Michigan. Discover her journey!

Check out second-year poetry student Alissa Hetherington’s poem “Shakespeare & Sympathy” in the newest issue of Beyond Words Magazine!

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Congrats to poetry graduate Justine Defever for publishing her poem “Flowers for Edith” in The Metropolitan Review!

"Flowers for Edith" and "Where There is Only Sound and Light" New Poetry from The Metropolitan Review

Recent poetry graduate Micah Brewer’s poem “Bumbles” is in the newest issue of Carolina Muse. Check it out!

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Check out alum Sara Wenger’s poem “Estrangements” in the newest issue of “The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry”!

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Please enjoy another poem by Jessie Anne Harrison called “Playing Hamlet While Trump Gets Re-Elected” in the newest issue of Half and One!

Playing Hamlet While Trump Gets Re-Elected - Half and One If I didn’t kill myself in high school,

Check out second-year poet Jessie Anne Harrison’s poems in the newest issue of The 2River View!

The 2River View, 29.3 (Spring 2025) I’m twenty-five and still get sweaty hands Standing in an elementary school cafeteria, And I dread walking past those short tables, Certain I’ll overhear the sixth graders Whispering about my frizzy hair and glasses. When I’m handed a tray with nachos and beans, I’m embarrassed that the lunc...

Second-year poetry student Jessie Ann Harrison has just published her poem “I Loved Theatre in High School, But I Got Too Busy” in To Write a Refuge. Check it out!

Home To be in America in 2025 is many things - disorienting, anxiety-inducing, overwhelming, hopeless. We all need the occasional refuge, the safe place to smile again, to see joy and beauty before recharging and gathering our courage - whether that's the courage to protest, to practice civil disobedienc...

Check out second-year poetry student Jessie Ann Harrison's poem "No, I Don't Regret Loving You" in the newest issue of The Prose Poem!

No, I Don’t Regret Loving You – The Prose Poem Not because it was a steppingstone to better water. Nor because I miss the current you pulled me under. (I craved the roar and the pressure, then.) It’s not the tug of nostalgia’s tide. That old love was not a bucket I added to the pool my lily pad now rests in. It wasn’t a steppingstone. I ca...

Congratulations goes out to recent poetry grad Justine Defever for winning first place in ZO Magazine's Decennalia Poetry Expo! Check out her award-winning poem "I Miss Being 10 Years Old."

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Second-year poetry student Christian Heigler placed second in a contest run by Humans of the World with his poem "The Moon Is a Tease." Congrats Christian!

2nd Place of 2024 Fall Poetry Contest: The Moon Is A Tease - Christian Heigler The moon doesn’t want to be photographed.Can’t be photographed because her beautycannot be captured by man-made machines. She must be captured by naked hands,her likeness attempted with gentle chalk,brazen charcoal, soft watercolors. Her craters are invitations, doe-likeand admiring each and eve...