After considering 88 applications, the panel has made its decisions. There were many strong applications and it was a tough choice, but the following writers were selected. We look forward to getting to know them at Seaview. Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship First Place - Tiffany Krupa, a poet from Santa Barbara, CA Tiffany Krupa is a writer and poet. Her work has been published and/or anthologized in the Albion Review and Arsenic Lobster. She is on a small tour reading in Ventura, California and San Fransisco, California in ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: Two Poems by Kenneth Hart
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. White Flag by Kenneth Hart My failure felt more pure because, for once in my life I didn't make an excuse for it. To let the other have the last word, like the last knight on the battlefield holding a sword, after the long fight where we each re-trenched, and fortified the walls of our positions— Oh, the liberty of laying down ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: Excerpt from Chapter 1, Pasture of Heaven by Judith Lindbergh
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Nicole Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Excerpt from Chapter 1, Pasture of Heaven by Judith Lindbergh The Kara Kam told my mother I would be important. I was five winters old and had just begun to learn the skill of sewing felt. I sat beside our fire working at two small patches with a thin wool thread when my mother stepped inside our winter hut, kneeling low to warm her ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: Beautiful Girls by Anndee Hochman
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Nicole Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Beautiful Girls by Anndee Hochman The problem was an infected earlobe. Sasha, my 13-year-old daughter, had been diligent about swabbing the new piercing twice a day, but the air is full of germs, and somehow one of them had crept inside. Now the ear throbbed scarlet, and a lymph node had swollen just behind it, an unforgiving pea ... Read More...
Getaway Reads: Two Poems by Stephen Dunn
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Nicole Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer by Stephen Dunn Mrs. Cavendish desired the man in the fedora who danced the tarantella without regard for who might care. All her life she had a weakness for abandon, and, if the music stopped, for anyone who could turn a phrase. The problem was Mrs. Cavendish wanted it all to mean something in a ... Read More...