Claire Messud Reading

Well, we had a really nice week with Claire Messud.  She was our 2009 Rea Visiting Writer in Fiction and gave a craft talk, held individual conferences with our fiction students, and gave a public reading.  Here’s a video snippet from that reading over at the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library.  Her text is her [...]


Reading by UVA MFA Emily Sandberg (video)

…And here is fiction writer Emily Sandberg from the October 27th reading.


Reading by UVA MFA Christa Romanosky (video)

MFAs at the University of Virginia read at Charlottesville’s Bel Rio each Tuesday night for the program’s reading series. We think you’ll enjoy these two videos from last night’s reading, featuring poet Christa Romanosky.

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Motionpoems

Hello, Meridan blog followers!  I’m Zayne, a first-year poet.

A friend of mine now living in Minneapolis sent me an article about an event going down on October 20. (You can read the article yourself here.) The event itself will be a screening of several ‘motionpoems’—collaborations between poets and animators, rendering what seems to [...]


Pretty Neat: Video Lit Mag

There’s lots of talk about the future of publishing, how technology has changed everything, and how paper is doomed etc.. From minor changes like offering online/email submissions to the entire lit mag being an online entity, the literary journal world has made adjustments to try and keep up. Online lit mags are [...]