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- Everything is pleasant inside the East Campus Greenhouse Rist Urban Agriculture Greenhouse . The air is warm and tranquil, filled with fresh, earthy notes from the spring seedlings of tomato plants…Type: News
- Shortly before Assoc. Prof. Lim-Sandra Sandra Lim completed her Ph.D. in English page English literature, she decided to take a chance on her poetry and apply to M.F.A. programs in creative…, Q: Why do you write poetry?, A:, Fundamentally, I think I write to examine and make sense of life – my own life and the life of the world – and to feel the freshness and grace and oddity of social, natural and inner worlds. Life…, Q: Why should people read poetry?, A:, I don’t think poetry should be foisted upon people like a multivitamin or offered up as some sugary treat. It can lend depth of feeling to some people, or a clarity of perception to others – these…, Q: What poems or poets do you find yourself returning to again and again, and what are you reading right now?, A:, I often go back to Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, George Oppen or Sylvia Plath, to name a few. Right now, it is hard to concentrate, but I have been thumbing through the works of some…, Q: How do you teach creative writing?, A:, One of the first things, especially when you teach younger adults, is to help them understand that it’s a craft. There are a lot of preconceptions that you have to undo. Poetry isn’t just writing…, Q: Much of your work is written in free verse. Do you teach structured forms like the sonnet to students as a way of demonstrating the tools of the trade?, A:, When I’m teaching poetry as part of Intro to Creative Writing, we talk about syntax, line, image, repetition, voice and echo, etc. We’ll look at more fixed forms like villanelles and sestinas, and I…, Q: How would you describe your experience as part of UML’s creative writing faculty?, A:, I feel so lucky to be surrounded by terrific colleagues: fellow Dietz-Maggie poet Maggie Dietz and fiction and nonfiction writers Dubus-Andre Andre Dubus III and Stanton-Maureen Maureen Stanton…Type: News
- AMHERST, Mass. – As millions of families struggle to keep their children learning while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, preliminary results of a randomized, controlled study led by…Type: News
- AMHERST, Mass. – Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that…Type: News
- UMass Boston alumnus Jack Carvalho ’92 has donated $100,000 to the Beacon Student Aid Fund, which provides emergency one-time grants to students who have urgent financial needs. The gift from…Type: News
- Guide to Online Schools has named UMass Boston’s online master’s in history program the No. 1 program for Best Online Master’s in History Degrees in 2020. "The department is delighted by this…Type: News
- AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student produced approximately 400 personal protection face shields for local health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The…Type: News
- AMHERST, Mass. – To address the COVID-19 pandemic, particle physicist Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an international team of “Dark Matter” scientists are now designing…Type: News
- There’s no telling how the coronavirus pandemic will affect national, state and local elections this November. But at the student government level at UMass Lowell, it’s business as usual. Voting in…Type: News
- The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has selected Benjamin Kugler, a PhD candidate in UMass Boston’s Exercise and Health Sciences Program , as one of the two recipients of this year’s…Type: News