“Gay in Nigeria, Black Male in America,” an opinion piece by Chibuihe Obi Achimba MFA ’22, was published in The New York Times on Saturday, Nov. 7.  Chibuihe, who is studying poetry in the Literary Arts graduate program, was a 2019 – 2020 Scholar-at-Risk at Harvard University before matriculating at Brown.

Erica Hunt, Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Poetry, was interviewed in Poets & Writers Magazine about her new poetry collection, Jump the Clock, published in October by Nightboat Books.

"Tender Grapes," a story by Helen Armstrong MFA '22, has been nominated for "Best of the Net" by The Black Warrior Review.   Helen's work explores "gender and queerness in language and the possibilities that words create for communities."   She is currently pursuing her MFA in fiction. 

Princeton University's Program in American Studies is hosting novelist Karan Mahajan (Brown University) and poet 

David Orsini's novel Vanishing by Degrees has become a part of the Language Arts curriculum in Cranston High School West. Please visit www.quaternitybooks.com for more information about David's novels, story collection, and novella. On the Quaternity Books site, you will also find information about David's twin brother Daniel's three books of metaphysical poetry. Daniel earned three degrees from Brown University: A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.

Jim Higdon (MFA, 2000) has launched Cornbread Hemp, a CBD brand named after his first book, The Cornbread Mafia. The book is a narrative nonfiction account of the largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history based in Higdon’s hometown in Kentucky.

The Department of Literary Arts expresses the solidarity of its community in protesting and addressing anti-Black violence, systemic and entrenched racism, and the ongoing legacy of historic racism.

A p0em by Erica Hunt, assistant professor of the practice, is the focus of the 27 May 2020 edition of PoemTalk. The episode features Tyrone Williams, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, William J Harris & Erica Hunt talking with Al Filreis about Erica's poem "Should You Find Me.”