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Four new faculty members will join the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars for the January residency: Claire Vaye Watkins in Fiction, Jenny Boully and Doug Bauer in Nonfiction, and Safiya Sinclair in Poetry. In addition, we’ll welcome visiting faculty members Monica Youn in Poetry and Wayne Koestenbaum in Nonfiction/Poetry. 

A review in the Hartford Courant of Jean Randich's "The Importance of Being Earnest" highly praised the Connecticut Rep production. 

In The Jerusalem Post, on the occasion of Simhat Torah—the Jewish holiday that marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle—Rabbi Michael Cohen offers an examination of the first reading, calling it "the underpinning of the notion of creatio ex nihilo, God creating the world out of nothing."

The New Yorker online featured a piece by award-winning poet Donald Hall, MFA Writer-in-Residence, called "The Poetry of Death."

Since creating the viral Twitter account "Astro Poets," which aims to change the way the Internet sees the zodiac, visiting literature faculty member Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky have amassed a collection of more than 194,000 Twitter followers, a monthly advice column for WMagazine and, as they recently announced, a new book deal.