Commencement 2009
The Vanderbilt English Department Master of Fine Arts program graduated its second class this spring. Fiction writers Bryn Chancellor, Meredith Gray, and Wade Ostrowski and poets Destiny Birdsong, Carrie Causey, and Michael Sarnowski all participated in commencement, along with creative writing faculty members Kate Daniels, Tony Earley, Rick Hilles, Mark Jarman, Lorraine Lopez, and Nancy Reisman.
Michael Sarnowski Publications
The Honey Land Review will publish Michael Sarnowski’s poem “On Writing, On Life” in its November 2008 issue. The Adirondack Review will publish his poem "Thawing the Bones" in its winter issue. Michael is a second-year student in the M.F.A. program.
Carrie Causey Publication
Poet and National Book Award winner Jean Valentine has chosen the poem "We Want a Farm" by second-year MFA student Carrie Causey for Ploughshares.
Best New Poets
Beth Bachmann's poem "Nesting" has been included in Best New Poets 2007 edited by Natasha Tretheway.
Best American Poetry
Poems by Kate Daniels and Mark Jarman were chosen by Charles Wright for The Best American Poetry 2008, edited by Charles Wright and David Lehman. Scribner will publish the anthology in September 2008. Wright chose Kate Daniels' poem "Homage to Calvin Spotswood, " published in storySouth, and Mark Jarman's poem "Snoring," published in American Poetry Review. These links will take you to the poems:
"Homage to Calvin Spotswood"
"Snoring"
Stories by Bryn Chancellor
Stories by Bryn Chancellor, first year M.F.A. student in fiction, appear in The Fourth River (Chatham College, Autumn 2007) and will appear in Yalobusha Review (University of Mississippi, January 2008).
