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Jennifer Chang: Closing the Distance

February 28, 2019 | blog, news
By Katelin McLaren (Poetry ’20) and Dakota Reed (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, February 21st, visiting poet Jennifer Chang read from her book Some Say the Lark for the third Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. First year poetry student Kat Smolinsky introduced Chang by inviting the audience to “come together to listen to and affirm...

The Fearful Beauty of 'Anything': Review of Lee Martin's "The Mutual UFO Network"

November 29, 2018 | blog, book reviews
By Emma Stough The Mutual UFO NetworkBy Lee Martin300 pp. Dzanc Books. $26.95 The legion of characters populating Lee Martin’s forthcoming collection The Mutual UFO Network cause a reader to question humanity’s place among the stars and planets. Martin favors the wanderers—those navigating the untidy shambles of lost love, of families cracked and broken apart, of past and...

Venita Blackburn: Writing the Story that Scares You

November 27, 2018 | blog, news
By Grace Timko (Fiction ’20) and Rosie Mary Jane Kopman (Fiction ’20) On Thursday, November 15th, Venita Blackburn read from her newly published short story collection, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, for the last of the 2018 Crazyhorse readings. First year fiction student in the College of Charleston MFA program, Rosie Mary Jane Kopman, introduced Blackburn by speaking...

Mary Biddinger: Adapting Experience

November 7, 2018 | blog, news
By Dakota Reed and Katelin McLaren (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, October 25th, poet Mary Biddinger gave the first Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. The timing felt fitting. Only days before Halloween, Biddinger joked about being a witch and described the “witchy-ness” and magical elements that contribute to compiling a book of poetry. Second year...

Unguided Girlhood: A Review of "The Blurry Years" by Eleanor Kriseman

October 23, 2018 | blog, book reviews
By Christine McSwain The Blurry YearsBy Eleanor Kriseman160 pp. Two Dollar Radio, $15.99 In The Blurry Years, Eleanor Kriseman depicts the particularly tumultuous but ultimately universal growing pains of Callie, a bright young girl living in Florida with her flighty, alcoholic mother. Against a rotating backdrop of run-down motel rooms, the homes of short-term boyfriends,...

Piecing it Together: Review of "Because: A Lyric Memoir" by Joshua Mensch

September 18, 2018 | book reviews, news
By John L. Byrne Because: A Lyric Memoir By Joshua Mensch 144 pp. W.W. Norton & Company, $22.95 At once a personal account of actual events and a lyric journey through the formative years of a young boy, Joshua Mensch’s lyric memoir, Because, unfolds a tale about the impact of childhood sexual and psychological abuse....

Hadara Bar-Nadav on the Beauty of Ambiguity

April 18, 2018 | news, readings
On Thursday, April 12th, poet Hadara Bar-Nadav gave the final Crazyhorse reading of the 2017-2018 school year. Second-year MFA candidate Catherine McCullough introduced her, saying that Bar-Nadav’s latest collection, The New Nudity, “is a captivating range of everyday objects.” She continued to say, “what struck me the most was the fantastic sound quality of her...

The Art of Translation: A Conversation with Poetry Translations Editor, Scott Minar

March 28, 2018 | interviews, news
A Conversation with Crazyhorse Poetry Translations Editor, Scott Minar and MFA ’18 Poetry student Angela Pilson When and how did you first become interested in translations? That’s a difficult question for me because I think I’ve always been interested in them. I grew up in a bilingual neighborhood in Cleveland and my household was bilingual–Italian and English....

Christine Schutt: Learning What You Do Well

February 7, 2018 | news, readings
By John L. Byrne (Poetry ’19) and Emma Stough (Fiction ’19) On the night of Thursday, February 1st, author Christine Schutt gave the third Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. Schutt was greeted on campus with a mild evening, something of a rarity for winter months here in Charleston. First-year fiction student in the College...

An Evening with Donika Kelly

November 21, 2017 | news, readings
By John L. Byrne (Poetry ’19) and Emma Stough (Fiction ’19) The cold, rainy conditions on Thursday, November 9th couldn’t keep students, faculty, and fans of poetry from flocking to the EHHP Alumni Center to hear a reading by poet Donika Kelly. A teacher at St. Bonaventure’s College in upstate New York, Kelly recently published...

Scott Gould: Writing What You Know Well Enough to Lie About

November 21, 2017 | news, readings
By John L. Byrne (Poetry ’19) and Emma Stough (Fiction ’19) On Thursday, October 26th, author Scott Gould visited the College of Charleston for the 2017 Crazyhorse Reading Series. Bret Lott, Professor and Director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and nonfiction editor of Crazyhorse, introduced Scott. The two authors have a long history...

Dana Levin: Crazyhorse Reading

April 18, 2017 | news, readings
With a mane of wavy, silver blonde hair framing her smiling face, Dana Levin stands in front of a crowd at Randolph Hall, lifts her phone to take a picture, and says, “One, two, three, Poetry!” She immediately puts her audience at ease and seems to relax into herself as she explains that her latest...