{"id":709,"date":"2014-04-08T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/?p=709"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:13:51","slug":"mfa-first-year-student-reading-april-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/2014\/04\/08\/mfa-first-year-student-reading-april-16\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA First Year Student Reading, April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2014\/04\/April16x2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-711\" alt=\"April16x2\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2014\/04\/April16x2-182x300.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2014\/04\/April16x2-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2014\/04\/April16x2.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><strong>Come join us for a heaping helping of poetry, fiction, and fun at the Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art on April 16, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reading will include the work of two fiction writers and two poets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Cunningham<\/strong>\u2019s writing has appeared in publications including <i>Aesthetix<\/i>, <i>DIAGRAM<\/i>, <i>A Capella Zoo<\/i>, <i>Witness<\/i>, <i>H_NGM_N<\/i>, <i>The Destroyer<\/i>, and others. He is the founding editor of Radioactive Moat Press. Cunningham recently finished a collection of poems inspired by <em>Winnie the Pooh<\/em> that mutates the characters in ways that investigate a host of philosophical, linguistic, and cultural issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Newman<\/strong>\u2019s fiction has been published in <i>elimae<\/i>, <i>Caketrain<\/i>, <i>PANK<\/i>, <i>Redivider<\/i> and elsewhere. Her work is intensely lyrical and bends any common conception of the relationship between sound, sense, and the written word.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dev Varma<\/strong>\u2019s fiction has been published in <i>Oxford American Magazine<\/i>; <i>A Clean, Well-Lighted Place<\/i>; <i>mojo<\/i>; and <i>Mikrokosmos<\/i> and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction. Varma is currently at work on a book project that interrogates the possibility of morality in metafiction as well as the possibility of being both literary and a good human being.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Zavecz<\/strong> is currently working on a book of apocalyptic poetry and is inspired by a myriad of ideas, including the rise and fall of civilizations, overwrought fashion and pageantry, science fiction and the beautification of the grotesque.<\/p>\n<p>The reading will be at the <strong>Crossroads Gallery of Contemporary Art, located at 1045 W. Washington Street, South Bend, IN 46601<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The reading is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come join us for a heaping helping of poetry, fiction, and fun at the Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art on April 16, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.! The reading will include the work of two fiction writers and two poets. Paul Cunningham\u2019s writing has appeared in publications including Aesthetix, DIAGRAM, A Capella Zoo, Witness, H_NGM_N, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}