Kevin Finn, a first year poetry student in the MFA program, has received an honorable mention for "Western Psychiatric Elopement Risk," from the 2008 Tiger's Eye Poetry Contest. It will be published in the Tiger's Eye Journal, Spring 2008.

Juilenne Mc Knight's poem, "Daughter Scar," is published in the February 29th issue of COMMONWEAL. Juilenne, the first graduate in our MFA program, is also the author of five novels published by St. Martin's Press.

John Carpenter has a short essay on Garrison Keilor’s Web site. John has finished his residency requirements and is completing a novel. A journalist and former writer for the Chicago Sun, he has also published in the New York Times and other prestigious newspapers.

Kathryn Graves’s poem, “No More Masks,” will be published in the October issue of The Oak, a quarterly publication featuring poetry and fiction. “No More Masks” was inspired by the black and white photographs of Anne Sexton, taken weeks before her death, by her personal photographer, Arthur Furst. Kathryn, a second year student in Carlow’s MFA program, has studied with Mary O’Donnell in Ireland, and Ann Towsend in Pittsburgh.

Jane Candia Coleman, a fiction mentor in Carlow’s MFA program since its beginning, has been invited to participate in the annual Festival Kino in Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The festival honors the 17th century Jesuit missionary, Eusebio Kino who changed the face of the American Southwest and Sonora, Mexico with the building of churches, many of which are still in use, and with his contributions to agronomy and his geographical discoveries. The festival will be held on March 15, and continue with an international gathering of the arts, May 21-24.

Jane will give readings from her Pulitzer nominated book of poetry on Father Kino’s life, The White Dove. The mission church of San Xavier del Bac in Tucson is known to all as 'The White Dove,' and Kino laid the cornerstones for the church before his death. She has also been invited to Segno, Italy, Kino’s birthplace, as part of an international envoy which is pushing for sainthood for Kinbo.

The poets Victoria Dym and Amy Sutton will be featured at the Choice Cuts Reading Series, Friday February 15, at the Slaughterhouse Gallery & Studios, 5136 Butler Street, Lawrenceville. The donation is $3. Victoria Dym is a graduate of Ringling Brother’s Barnum and Bailey Clown College, bachelor in fun arts-humility, and a bachelor of arts in philosophy, from the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently working toward her MFA in creative writing-poetry at Carlow University. She is a Screen Actors Guild member and has appeared in movies, on stage, television, radio and has had a stand-up comedy career. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and the City Paper. She is the owner and operator of Zanzibar O2, a portable oxygen bar business, founder of The Sunnyhill Earth Day Committee, a Madwoman, and proud mother of daughter Sydney.

Amy Sutton received her MFA from Carlow University, and her first manuscript, entitled Tabloids, pays homage to Teri Hatcher, Clea Duvall, and the working class folks who are her everyday celebrities. Amy is a sound engineer for WYEP’s weekly poetry series Prosody, and the assistant editor of the 2008 Madwomen in the Attic anthology, Voices from the Attic. She teaches literature and creative writing at Carlow, and currently resides in Tarentum with her life partner Sherri.

Patricia Dobler Poetry Contest

This contest is open to any woman writer over the age of 40 living in the U.S. who has not published a full-length book of poetry, fiction, or non-fiction (chapbooks excluded).

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