On the eve of the big storm, a blizzard of good news: Feb's notes and honors from MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. Recent MCC awardee Caitlin O'Neil reviews George Rosen's short story collection The Immanence of God in the Tropics for Ploughshares: "he writes with such stark, unadorned clarity that distant places snap into focus." Sophia Ainslie has a solo show, in … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Mar 12
March goes in like a line (drawn), out like an iamb with our monthly news/notes from past Artist Fellows/Finalists: Nell Breyer and Jeff Warmouth both have large-scale media art illuminating the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center LED marquee. Laura Chasman, Andrea Sherrill Evans, and Helena Wurzel exhibit Portraits at Drive-By in Watertown (3/1-4/7). Read about … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – October 11
Contrary to popular belief, artists don't pack up their practices for the month of October so they can concentrate solely on churning out witch-crashed-into-a-tree decorations for Halloween. No, they keep doing great stuff like this. Here's what past MCC Artist Fellows and Finalists are up to this month: The Boston Book Festival, taking place on Saturday, October 15, … [Read more...]
Jessica Bozek at the Boston Book Fest
The Boston Book Festival is a free, day-long schedule of events, readings, workshops, and other bookish happenings on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at Copley Square in Boston. A number of past MCC fellows/finalists are among the presenters, including Jessica Bozek (Poetry Finalist '10), who joins poets Stephen Burt and Sandra Beasley for the reading/discussion Poetry: Personae, … [Read more...]
Readings by State-awarded Poets and Writers
We are thrilled - THRILLED, I say - to announce the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a series of literary events featuring Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows/Finalists in prose and poetry! The readings will take place this March and April 2011 in the Boston area and Western Mass., and they'll feature awardees from our 2010 review in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. … [Read more...]