Lillian-Yvonne Bertram wins Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest

Congrats to MFA alum Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who was named first-place winner of the 8th annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest! The first place winner receives $1500 and publication in Narrative Magazine.

Professor Janice Harrington publishes third poetry collection

Primitive, the new poetry collection from Professor Janice N. Harrington, is just out from BOA Editions. A lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African American artist of his time—Primitive offers a searching critique of the condescension to African American folk art as supposedly “primitive,” and it also critiques the underestimation of African American life and imagination in the broader American consciousness.