October « 2009 « Meridian – The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia

Actually, We're #1

Written by Jonterri Gadson on October 30th, 2009

You all have to take a look at this hilarious blog post from HTML Giant, “Top 5 MFA Rankings Rearranged“, that places UVA at the top of P&W’s rankings (where we belong, of course). Here’s an excerpt:

1. University of Iowa in Iowa City University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Need I say more? I’ll take it however we [...]

Reading by UVA MFA Emily Sandberg (video)

Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 28th, 2009

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

Reading by UVA MFA Christa Romanosky (video)

Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 28th, 2009

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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Part 2:

You're So Black You're Blue, Boy

Written by Dave Serafino on October 22nd, 2009

Blue Boy: Seeing beyond Perception by Dash Cox
Illustrations by David Dibble

There is a particular kind of poetry that I’ve seen in literary magazines: so-called literary works from literary minds, masters of fine arts, doctors of poetry with the passion schooled straight out of them. Some are clever, some surprising, some witty, some are examples of [...]

2010 Editors’ Prize Contest Now Open

Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 20th, 2009

We’re excited to announce that we are now accepting entries for the 2010 Editors’ Prize Contests in Fiction and Poetry. Deadline December 15, 2009.

For a $16 entry fee, you receive a chance at a $1,000 prize and a one-year subscription to Meridian (entries from outside the U.S. will receive only the prize issue due [...]

Motionpoems

Written by Zayne Turner on October 19th, 2009

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 [...]

We're #3!

Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 14th, 2009

…According to Poets & Writers’s 2010 MFA Rankings. How about that? In the breakdown, we’re at #2 for poetry, #4 for fiction, and #2 for selectivity.

http://www.pw.org/content/2010_mfa_rankings_top_fifty_0

The Top Ten:

University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Texas, Austin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brown University
New York University
Cornell University
University of Oregon

Here’s the guide if you’d like to [...]

Dying is Fun

Written by Kevin Allardice on October 2nd, 2009

How do you write a review of a book when you’re legally prohibited from discussing what the book is about? You write about yourself.

Actually, Ron Rosenbaum says some pretty good stuff in the article. Especially that part about Nabokov being a genius. And I am unreasonably excited to see this book. I’ve always been curious [...]