Mihaela Moscaliuc

During a recent sabbatical, Moscaliuc published an article on cultural appropriations of “Gypsyness” in Critical Romani Studies and a second book of translations, Liliana Ursu’s Star and Clay (Etruscan Press). During residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony, she completed her third poetry collection, Cemetery Ink, forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2021. The poems celebrate goats, black swans, centipedes, wandering wombs, succulent cherries, dismembered dolls, deep-fried brains, ink mushrooms, and people whose uprooted lives wed beauty to disaster.

She also co-edited, with Michael Waters, an anthology of poems, Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf/Penguin Random House, 2020). Born out of a sense of necessity and as a response to current debates on immigration, the anthology brings together more than a hundred poets representing more than 60 nationalities.

With Poet Laureate of New York State Alicia Ostriker and translator Tess O’Dwyer, Moscaliuc also started curating “The New Colossus Translation Project,” which aims to render Emma Lazarus’s famous 1883 sonnet in as many languages as possible, and is hosted by the American Jewish Historical Society. As guest blogger for Best American Poetry, she wrote on the role of poetry in times of oppression and included tributes to American poet Gerald Stern and the late Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. She was also poetry guest editor for the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Epiphany, which focuses on Borders, and since January has been translation editor for the literary journal Plume.

Monmouth University’s Visiting Writers Series Opens with Novelist Alena Graedon

The 2017-2018 Visiting Writers Series opens with a reading by novelist Alena Graedon on Tuesday, September 19 at 4:30 p.m. in the Great Hall Auditorium on Monmouth University’s campus.

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Writing that explores dystopian futures and female pilots of World War II.

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Poetry from the Emerald Isle

The Center for the Arts has announced that two award-winning Irish poets, Eleanor Hooker and Clodagh Beresford Dunne, will visit Monmouth University on Tuesday, March 20, to read from their notable works. The free event will happen at 4:30pm in the Great Auditorium, and is part of the Center’s Visiting Writer Series.

Finding a Voice

The Monmouth Review is our University’s literary and arts journal. Each year, students and alumni publish poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and artwork in the journal.

‘The Judaism of a feminist’ Poet Alicia Ostriker to speak at Monmouth U

In the beginning, for Alicia Suskin Ostriker, there was the word. She began writing poetry as a child, and at 80 she is still using her words to capture and convey life’s truths, its spirituality and sensuality, and the urgent calls of social justice.

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