Graduate Writing
Announcing the first issue of 
, a semi-annual tabloid of poetry, fiction, essays, statements, provocations & other extensions of the whole art. Featuring new English translations of Adonis, Jorge Amado, Ahmed Barakat, Mohammed Dib, Horace, Ko Un, Giovanna Sandri, as well as a report on “The Position of Things,” the March 2008 celebration in Los Angeles, honoring the life and work of Italian poet, editor and critic Adriano Spatola. Also featured is new work by Amiri Baraka, Art Beck, Guy Bennett, Brian Blanchfield, Neeli Cherkovski, Gillian Conoley, Ray DiPalma, Peter Gadol, Marco Giovenle, Owen Hill, Lewis MacAdams, Barabara Maloutas, Ken McCullough, Douglas Messerli, Laura Moriarty, Yann Perreau, Dennis Phillips, Nick Piombino, Martha Ronk, Iris Smyles, Domenic Stansbery, Frederic Tuten, William Xerra and more. Free-of-charge and distributed nationally, is a publishing project of Otis College of Art and Design’s Graduate Writing program, replacing the critically acclaimed New Review of Literature, which published ten issues from 2003-2008.
To be on our list of free subscribers, or to contact us, write to the editor: pvangel@otis.edu.
Graduate Writing Student Magazine
Otis College of Art and Design is announcing a new student-run journal: AXL(e), focusing on the writing of graduate students around the country. We invite current graduate students to submit up to five pages of previously unpublished poetry, or up to ten pages of previously unpublished fiction or creative non-fiction, including translations.
Submissions should be sent to:
Graduate Writing Program
Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90045
axle@otis.edu
The deadline for submission is December 31, 2008. Axl(e) will appear on or around April 15, 2009. For any additional information, do not hesitate to e-mail at the above address. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if the work we are considering is accepted elsewhere.
Paul Vangelisti, Chair of the Graduate Writing Program
"For too long the serious study of contemporary poetry and fiction has been consigned to the English Department or to other disciplines that fail to consider the primary and complex practice of writing as a verbal art. Otis is uniquely positioned to introduce a new and comprehensive approach to the graduate writing degree. In asking “why Otis?” it is important to view our MFA program not only distinctive in the institutional market but also as an extension of Otis's historical mission to bring innovative arts education to Los Angeles. Our multi-disciplinary approach—writing, literature, critical theory, publishing and translation—is the ideal complement to the program's international emphasis, providing a singular opportunity to look at American writing in relation to other contemporary world literatures. We prepare verbal artists to make their way in a profession that increasingly involves teaching or other institutional affiliations (publishing, arts organizations, museums, etc.), along with the more traditional, individualized role of the creative writer. As a writer, specifically a California writer, I find that where I live grows daily more curious and fascinating: what is of and in the world speaks with an eloquence beyond any voice I can imagine."
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