Artists' careers can take many trajectories. In our conversations with working artists, we've asked: Can you point to any one decision you've made as an artist that has had the most impact on your career? Joan Leegant, writer Probably the smartest thing I did was to enroll in a master's program in writing, a low-residency MFA at Vermont College, now the Vermont College of … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – May 2011
Spring is a-bloom, allergens are omnipresent, and Massachusetts artists are being their usual awesome. Here's this month's news from past MCC fellows/finalists. This month, the Massachusetts Poetry Festival takes place in Salem, Massachusetts (you’ll see events featuring past fellows/finalists throughout this month’s notes). But we wanted to be sure to draw your … [Read more...]
Leslie Williams, on Success
The 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series of events with MCC writers and poets concludes with a reading at Newtonville Books in Newton on Tuesday, April 5, 7 PM. One of the participants in the 4/5 Newtonville Books reading is Leslie Williams (Poetry Fellow '10), whose poetry collection Success of the Seed Plants was published by Bellday Books in 2010. We asked Leslie about … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Mar 2011
Here's the latest installment of Fellows Notes, the current news of past fellows/finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. March comes in like a lion with readings, exhibitions, awards, books, world premieres, and more. (I have a feeling that when it comes to artists, March will defy proverb and go out leonine, too.) MCC is honored to have two opportunities to … [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...]