News & Events

• The film Crazy Heart, based on Professor Tom Cobb’s novel of the same name and starring Jeff Bridges, is due for release in New York and Los Angeles December 11, 2009, and should be in a theater near you in March 2010.
• Professor Cathleen Calbert’s essay “Forget the Men. Pick a Guy.”  appears September 18, 2009 in the New York Times Magazine.
• Associate Professor Karen Lee Boren’s essay “The Quest” has been selected for inclusion in the Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing, November 2009.

Creative Writing Program News, FALL 2009

• Alumnus Dionne Irving (’05) is a Ph. D. candidate at Georgia State University; her story “Canals” is a finalist for the Jack Dyer Fiction Prize and will be published in The Crab Orchard Review.
• Rebecca Maizel (’09) has signed a three-book contract with St. Martins Press for her young adult novel series. The first novel in the series is titled Warm Days and will be published in the U.S., U.K., Italy, and Brazil.
• Poet and author Mark Doty will read from his memoir Dog Years on September 15th at 7:00 p.m. in Alger 110. The reading is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored with the Rhode Island Veterinary Medical Association.
• Yidan Han, M.A. alum, has edited and published a bilingual anthology, with English and Chinese translations, entitled The PoetrySky Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2005-2008).