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UC Riverside faculty and alumni authors are set to appear at the 31st annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest book festival in the country, which runs April 18-19. For the second year in a row, UCR’s Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA Program is sponsoring the festival, which takes...
The poet looks back on her collaborations with composers and the debut of her newest project through Brooklyn Art Song Society on April 10.
Loneliness, while inherently isolating, is also a universal experience. This dichotomy lies at the heart of poet Katie Ford’s newest collection, “ If You Have to Go.” Dominated by a crown of 39 sonnets — each linked by the repetition of the last line of a poem as the first...
There was a time when Rachelle Cruz, M.F.A. ’12, had all but given up on getting her poetry collection published. A 10-year labor of love, she recalled sending out “ God’s Will for Monsters” 20-25 times before taking a two-year break from her attempts. As a last-ditch effort, Cruz submitted...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — How do you encapsulate several decades of your life? That was the question for Maurya Simon, professor emerita in the Department of Creative Writing and professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, while putting together her newest book, “ The Wilderness...