MFA books
Phoebe North (MFA, 2009) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013 ISBN: 9781442459533 Terra has never known anything but life aboard the Asherah, a city-within-a-spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago in search of refuge. At sixteen, working a job that doesn’t interest her, and living with a grieving father who only notices […]
Phoebe North (MFA, 2009) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014 ISBN: 9781442459564 The Asherah has finally reached Zehava, the long-promised planet. There, Terra finds harsh conditions and a familiar foe—Aleksandra Wolff, leader of her ship’s rebel forces. Terra and Aleksandra first lock horns with each other … but soon realize they face a […]
Randall Mann (MFA, 1997) Persea Books, 2013 ISBN: 9780892554300 Randall Mann’s third collection showcases the debaucheries and traumas of growing up amid San Francisco’s gay scene. These self-possessed new poems combine the regal and raw, with Mann’s renowned ear for poetic form matched by his unflinching eye for longing, alienation, and vice.
Randall Mann (MFA, 1997) Pearson Longman, 2007 ISBN: 9780321474063 The gold standard of poetry writing books, Writing Poems, 7/e is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide that will help aspiring poets to create meaningful works. What You’ll Find in this Edition: Sixty new poems – many by younger contemporary poets, representing a wide range of ages, ethnicities, […]
Randall Mann (MFA, 1997) Zoo Press, 2004 ISBN: 9781932023121 From poolside to seaside, barroom to classroom, sex club to colonial Florida, Randall Mann’s curiosity endeavors to discover, often ironically, the beauty of things in the world around him. These meditations – harsh, honest, explicit (though never vulgar), dark, and astute – reflect a sentiment for […]
Randall Mann (MFA, 1997) University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780226503448 Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” […]
Margaret Mackinnon (MFA, 1991) Silverfish Review Press, 2013 “Margaret Mackinnon is a compelling voice in American poetry. Her début collection, The Invented Child, is beautifully poised between reticence and candor. Frequently inspired by visual art, she writes lovingly of her parents, her husband, her child, but also of Sophia Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and Grant Wood, […]
Matthew Ladd (MFA, 2006) Waywiser Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781904130437 The Book of Emblems takes its title from the devotional genre, popular throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, whose allegorical illustrations were meant to focus the mind on the divine. Using a variety of narrative voices, a taut lyricism, and an array of imageries culled from the […]
Andrew Kozma (MFA, 2002) Zone 3 Press, 2007 ISBN: 9780978612719 “In Andrew Kozma’s poems, the world is intriguingly askew: ‘The desert sky opens like the mouth of a dying fish.’ Cafés undress, walls merge with air, and rooms speak, sometimes even returning one’s gaze, projecting strange images that will shadow you like portraits whose eyes […]
Noelle Kocot (MFA, 1995) Wave Books, 2013 ISBN: 9781933517742 Noelle Kocot’s sixth collection, built from the rubble and strangeness of everyday life, exists outside of time or telescope. Soul in Space is a masterful combination of Kocot’s intimacy of voice and authority over poetic form, and it leaves a brighter, weirder world in its wake.