Genre: Poetry

University of California, Riverside

MFA Program

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Riverside, CA

Application Deadline:

Thu, 01/15/2026

Application Fee:

$135 (fee waiver available for financial hardship)

Exalted Utterance: An Interview With Major Jackson

Mary Gannon

Feature

September/October 2010

9.1.10

Moving into new poetic territory, Major Jackson, in his third collection, Holding Company, corrals the ecstatic in a ten-line form.

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poetry | African American

Small Press Points

Staff

News and Trends

September/October 2010

9.1.10

Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features the new independent poetry press Birds, LLC, whose editors say an integral part of their mission is to build close relationships with authors and their work.

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small press | Small Press Points

Poets Act on Oil Spill

Shell Fischer

News and Trends

September/October 2010

9.1.10

In response to the Deep-water Horizon oil spill, writers Heidi Lynn Staples and Amy King created Poets for Living Waters, an online poetry forum featuring works written in response to the disaster, spurring a host of nationwide events that give poets not only an opportunity to take action against the catastrophe but also to speak out in support of our natural environment.

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poetry | literary sites