Rhony Bhopla, MFA Alum, will be featured at the Natsoulas Gallery tonight with Mariam Ahmed. poetryindavis.com/archive/2025...

The Slowdown's feature today is a poem by MFA Poetry Faculty, Danusha Laméris. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Rita Tiwari, Poet and PacU MFA Alumna, has a poem in Portland Review: portlandreview.org/this-living/

So happy to learn that my story, “Motherlode,” was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50! With gratitude to @cincinnatireview for publishing it last spring in the miCRo series - which was an honor in itself🤩 congrats to all!

Laura Rosenthal, Poet and PacU MFA Alumna, has a poem published in The Tampa Review: utampapress.org/product/tamp... @utampapress.bsky.social

Rhony Bhopla, PacU MFA Alum, is featured in conversation with E.W. Conundrum Demure on Troubadours and Raconteurs/Radio Free Brooklyn. You are invited to listen: www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/show-archive...

Pacific MFA Alumni Allison C. Macy-Steines and Rhony Bhopla have literary pieces published in Southern Humanities Review 58.3 www.southernhumanitiesreview.com

Kwame Dawes's "Envy" in @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/kwam...

A conversation with Kwame Dawes: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Thanks to novelist Deborah Reed '12, we have this to announce! www.pacificu.edu/magazine/ann...

Registration closes on June 30 and we have a few spots left in our morning workshops. Grab your seat and join our writing community for three life-changing days this summer in Mendocino! Visit MCWC.org for details and to register. .

"Peacekeeper" by Rhony Bhopla, Pacific MFA Alum, sold in this year's Big Names Small Art Auction at the Crocker Art Museum! Proceeds go to exhibitions and educational programs.

Omar El Akkad at Vulture! www.vulture.com/article/reco...

Kwame Dawes, Pacific MFA Faculty, curates and edits selections from the Digital Schooner Global Fusion Series, Volume 98. No. 2! Just released! prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer...

Shara McCallum is featured in the Spring 2025 The Fight and The Fiddle. The critical essay, "No Ruined Stone: Poems of Archival Imagination and Active Waiting" is by Pacific MFA Alum, Rhony Bhopla. fightandfiddle.com/issues/shara...

A Poem by Laura Vitcova paddockreview.com/2025/05/02/a... #poetry #life #nature #relationships #love

So honored to have three poems featured in this issue. #grateful #poet

Siddhartha Deb, Pacific MFA Faculty, is featured in a conversation with Amit Baishya. The article was commissioned by Nicholas Dames, co-editor in chief of Public Books. www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...

We strive to keep Black voices centered year-round, and we are honored to celebrate just a few of those we love this February. Today we give shout-outs to the talents of: DANUSHA LAMÉRIS (@danushalameris.bsky.social), JERICHO BROWN, CAMILLE RANKINE (@camillerankine.bsky.social), and ROGER REEVES.

When It's Darkness on the Delta by W. Ralph Eubanks will be out on January 13, 2026 (Beacon Press). : www.beacon.org/When-Its-Dar...

Pacific University MFA Nonfiction Faculty, Omar el Akkad, speaks with Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now: www.democracynow.org/2025/4/17/ev...

Pacific University MFA Faculty W. Ralph Eubanks will join Eddie Glaude, Jr. to discuss James Baldwin’s debut essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955). When: Wednesday, May 21 at 2 p.m. ET. Registration: authorsguild.org/event/readin...

Catherine-Esther Cowie, Pacific MFA Alum, received a special commendation for her poetry collection Heirloom. The commendation is in the Poetry Book Society's Summer Bulletin 2025 by Inpress Books. Selections were made by Victoria Kennefi and Yomi Ṣode. inpressbooks.co.uk/products/poe...

Part 2 of my series on Slab City. In this post I’ve profiled 4 residents—a biker, a bearded lady, a cancer survivor and a mother on the run from the law. These are the forgotten dramas of the American story. Life on the margins in every sense. www.minorityreport.me/p/slab-city-...

If you submit creative nonfiction to TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE, here's a group of readers awaiting your work—Pacific MFA students and alumni! files.taylorandfrancis.com/htlm-reviewe...

Student Veronica Bettencourt in the Crab Orchard Review! (pp. 11-12)! www.flipsnack.com/AB7B77BBDC9/...

Shara McCallum reads from her forthcoming poetry collection "Behold" at the Alaska Quarterly Review! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-0...

Pacific University MFA Alum Rhony Bhopla has an art piece titled "Peacekeeper" up for bid at the Big Names Small Art Auction. Proceeds go toward supporting exhibitions and programs at the Crocker Art Museum. See Peacekeeper here: bid.crockerart.org/online-aucti...

New fiction that sadly seems relevant as India concocts a war with Pakistan.

Siddhartha Deb in World Literature Today worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/ang...

The author of the novel Sweet, Soft, Plenty of Rhythm shares how a trip to her grandmother’s homeland dared her to be herself again on Oprah Daily. www.oprahdaily.com/life/wholene...

The author of the novel Sweet, Soft, Plenty of Rhythm shares how a trip to her grandmother’s homeland dared her to be herself again on Oprah Daily. www.oprahdaily.com/life/wholene...

Chris Abani, PacU MFA Faculty, served on the 2025 Selection Committee for the Writing Freedom Fellowship. The fellowship awards talented writers impacted by the carceral system. Meet the 2025 Fellows: writing-freedom.org/fellows/2025/

Reginald Dwayne Betts, 2021 Pacific MFA Visiting Writer, presents a lecture and reading hosted by Southeastern Louisiana University. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Qw...

Kwame Dawes, Pacific MFA Faculty and Poet Laureate of Jamaica, talks with Luis Hernandez on Rhode Island PBS. Dawes joined Brown University as Professor of Literary Arts in 2024. thepublicsradio.org/artscape/mee...

✨We are proud to announce that LAKE EFFECT by Hillary Behrman is the winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groff!✨

A new Crone story just out from Action, Spectacle, inspired by my mother, dear Marjorie Ann, with an accompanying painting by my very talented sister, Janie Painter! Thanks to editors @verennui.bsky.social and Adam Day for giving the work a home. ♥️ www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...

Poetry Foundation interview with Pacific MFA Poetry Alumna, Catherine-Esther Cowie: www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/166900...

Paul Tran and Literary Artists Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). Join this event for reflections, poetry and music performances by renowned artists of the Vietnamese diaspora. Registration information: dvan.org/SWR/

Registration is now open for STRATA: "Drawing from Real Life on the Margins," April 11-13, online, with Cecily Wong and Tyree Daye! secure.touchnet.com/C22700_ustor...

Danusha Laméris Her poem was selected for Poem-a-day on Poets.org poets.org/poem/u-pick-... ___________

MFA Poetry Faculty Mahtem Shiferraw's poem "Fire" appears in today's World Literature Today: I called beloveds between // shifts; we all wept senselessly, never once asking, // endet neh, endet nesh, because grief was grief // regardless of our geographies. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/f...

Give back on Boxer Giving Day. alumni.pacificu.edu/g/boxer-givi...

Sanjiv Bhattacharya, PacU Faculty, writes "The Zizian Cult Murders and the Edge of Reason." "This fear of the AI-pocalypse is a key part of the rationalist character, and the closer we get to that precipice, the more destabilizing the fear becomes." www.minorityreport.me/p/the-zizian...

@Danushalameris, PacU MFA Poetry Faculty, will judge the 2025 Jacar Press Chapbook Contest! bsky.app/profile/danu...

You are invited to listen to "White Peonies" by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Visiting Pacific MFA Faculty and visionary behind Freedom Reads. The poem is a feature in today's The Slowdown. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Officially appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica: jis.gov.jm/professor-kw...

Prairie Schooner portfolio of Editor’s Picks selected by Kwame Dawes, celebrating twelve years of published work under his leadership as Editor-in-Chief. prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

You are invited to listen to Rhony Bhopla, Pacific MFA Alum, in conversation with E.W. Conundrum Demure on a variety of topics including having the best four years of one's life as a form of resistance: www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/show-archive...

Hi, everyone! I’m published in the Clockwise Cat! Here’s a little link if you want to read a super fun indie lit journal — clockwisecat.com/2025/02/issu... And if you want more from me, you can find my work in “Mikrokosmos” Vol. 70 & “Mikrokosmos Mini Scary Stories”