the new school for general studies / creative writing viewbook 2010

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o diverse background and experience. All applicants must declarea concentration and submit a writing portolio demonstrating that they

possess the skills and a sucient body o quality work to advance

to graduate-level study. Details about the portolio and other applicationmaterials are provided on the website.

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Situated in New York Citys Greenwich Village,

The New School has been a vital center or

writing and writing instruction since 1931.

In that year, Gorham Munson, a Manhattan editor

and infuential member o the Alred Stieglitz

circle, introduced his now-legendary workshop

in creative writing.

We cant claim a rst, Munson subsequently

recalled. Credit or the rst goes to Amherst or

inviting Robert Frost to be a poet-in-residence.

But when The New School began to oer writing

courses, the proessional writer was a rare animal

on the classroom platorm. We led the way in

revolutionizing the teaching o writing. For notice

that all o us in those years were practicing

writers. We washed the typewriter ink o our

hands as we started or class.

The New School Writing Program oers the

opportunity to study the crat o writing under

the direction o master teachers who are

themselves distinguished practitioners. The

approach emphasizes the study o literature

as a vital artistic discipline, a creative activity,

rather than as a eld or historical analysis or an

object or interpretation, as in English, literary

ceAtvewtnAT TE NEWSCOOEight Decades of Innovation

studies, or comparative literature departments.

In seminars and workshops, writing teachers who

operate in The New Schools practitioner tradition

approach works o art rom the inside out, moving

inevitably rom close attention to language, crat,

and orm into history and culture, engaging the

ull complexity o a work, and resisting critical

narrowness, insularity, and reduction.

The tradition o experienced writers refecting

on their own practices and disciplines oers

a uniquely powerul vantage or the study o

literature o the past, since or writers learning

or tracking their art, the past is inescapably

the present. Think o W.G. Sebald, in 1999,

discovering how to write The Rings of Saturn by

reading Sir Thomas Brownes ydriotaphia, Urn

Burial; or, A Discourse o the Sepulchral Urns

ately Found in Norolk o 1658. Think o young

Elizabeth Bishop creating her early poems under

the spectral tutelage o George erbert and

Gerard Manley opkins.

Through nearly eight decades o continuous

innovation, the New School Writing Program

has welcomed a vivid and diverse whos who

o American poets, novelists, and e ssayists,

including, rom the past to the present, RobertFrost, W.. Auden, Robert owell, Amiri Baraka,

Frank Oara, Kenneth Koch, Stanley Kunitz,

Kay Boyle, May Sarton, orace Gregory,

Marguerite Young, William Goyen, Richard

Yates, John F. Bardin, Edward oagland, David

Ignatow, Alred Kazin, Anatole Broyard, Carolyn

Kizer, Daniel alpern, Carol Muske Dukes, and

Gilbert Sorrentino. More recent aculty include

ilton Als, Pearl ondon, ayes Ja cobs, ugh

Seidman, Jhumpa ahiri, Bernadette Mayer,

David Trinidad, David Markson, Bob olman,

1934.Gertrude Stein

ectures in America

1940.

W.. Auden

Poetry and Culture

1961.

Robert owell

English Poetry rom

Wyatt to Yeats

1962.

Frank Oara

Poetry Workshop

1963.

eRoi Jones

(Amiri Baraka)

American Poetry

1995

1961

20061970

1963

2005

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1934

David Rosenberg, Nicholas Chr

Shinder, Susan Wheeler, Peter C

and iam Rector.

When we launched the MFA in C

the 1990s, our aim was to ass

distinguished and emerging wri

described as the contemporary

brilliant legacy.

The other crucial component o

graduate writing program is, o

students. When we started the

Writing program, one aspiration

advantage o our geographical

York Cityhome to so many gi

so many vital magazines and pu

achievements o our graduates

and numerous that we can only

the Alumni and Friends section

at www.newschool.edu/writing/

their books, CDs, stories, poem

notable literary journals they ha

the lively reading series they cu

The New School Writing Program

workshop method o teaching:

writer-teacher gives guidance toocusing on their manuscripts a

creative acts o revision and se

workshops and individual cone

program provides a ramework

blocks o time or students to

developing their crat and creat

body o work. Both in the class

readings and lectures by disting

the New School Writing Program

and intensiy the writers lie.

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2008

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Since 1996, Te New School hasoered the Master of Fine Arts(MFA) in Creative Writing, withconcentrations in ction, poetry,nonction, and writing for children.

1970.John Ashbery and

Pearl ondon

1995.

ucille Cliton

2005.

Philip Gourevitch

2006.

Walter Mosley

2008.

John Ashbery,

David ehman,

Robert Polito

(standing)

2010.

Rae Armantrout

2010.

Robert Pinsky

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Writing programs, whatever else they might

involve, are communities, and those communities

emanate rom the talent, seriousness, and

commitment to teaching o the aculty.

Ours is an active and widely published aculty,

many o whom work in multiple literary genres

and artistic disciplines. Ours is a aculty

galvanized by their lives as teachers and mentors

at The New School.

ed by director Robert Polito, a prize-winning

biographer and poet, ction coordinator elen

Schulman, and poetry coordinator David ehman,

the New School graduate writing aculty is

unsurpassed anywhere in the United States.

To list our aculty is to represent the richness and

variety o modern American ction, nonction,

poetry, and childrens literature.

Find detailed biographical inormation about all

current members o the aculty on the website

at www.newschool.edu/writing.

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Divina Trace

My Grandmothers

Erotic Folktales

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The Artul Edit

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The Dance o No

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Someday This Pain

Will Be Useul to You

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American Bloomsbury

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The Privileges

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Ripple Eect

Voice-Over

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The Wonders o the

Invisible World

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Funny

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The Red Thread

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The Invisibles

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Its Beginning

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Yeshiva Boys

A Fine Romance

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The Architect

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Boy Meets Boy

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The Art o the

Personal Essay

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Trauma

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Daughter

Poems romthe Womens

Movement

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Farber on Film

A Readers Guide

to James Merrills

The Changing Light

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ollywood & God

Savage Art

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Mean Margaret

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A Monsters Notes

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Jesus Saves

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Tales Out o School

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The Blue Orchard

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23.Meghan ORourke

24.Dale Peck

25.Darryl Pinckney

26.Robert Polito

27.elen Schulman

28.Tor Seidler

29.aurie Sheck

30.Darcey Steinke

15.ettie Jones

16.James asdun

17.David ehman

18.Suzannah essard

19.David evithan

20.Phillip opate

21.Patrick McGrath

22.onor Moore

08.Jonathan Dee

09.Elaine Equi

10.David Gates

11.Jennier Michael echt

12.Ann ood

13.Shelley Jackson14.Zia Jarey

01.Jeery Renard Allen

02.Robert Antoni

03.Catherine Barnett

04.Susan Bell

05.Mark Bibbins

06.Susan Cheever07.Peter Cameron

31.Benjamin Taylor

32.Jackson Taylor

33.Paul Violi

34.Sarah Weeks

35.Brenda Wineapple

36.Stephen Wright

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The New School Writing Program refects the

amplitude and diversity o the writers lie in New

York City. Students in the program maintain their

own reading series and edit and publish their

own journal, LIT. The New School has established

creative partnerships with many other New York

City cultural institutions and every year a host o

distinguished writers take part in wide variety o

events that enhance the classroom experience

o our students. The program enjoys lively

collaborations with the Poetry Society o America,

the Academy o Ame rican Poets , PEN, CMP,

Poets ouse, and Cave Canem, among others.

Presenting as many as 100 literary events each

academic year, The New School is proud o what

may be the preeminent university public reading

series in the nation. Every all, The New School

hosts the National Book Award reading, and in

the spring we present both the National Book

Critics Circle Award Reading and host the gala

awards ceremony the ollowing night. Recently we

staged a estival in honor o poet John Ashbery,

a tribute to New Yorkereditor Alice Quinn, and

the Ghana Writers Conerence Reading. The New

School Writing Program also believes writers

must engage all artshence lm estivals

spotlighting Samuel Fuller, Edgar G. Ulmer, and

experimental documentaries; celebrations o

writer/artists Manny Farber and Joe Brainard; a

lecture series on music and democratic speech,

curated by Greil Marcus; a series o talks on theConstitution in Crisis eaturing Cass Sunstein,

Eric Foner, Elaine Scarry, and Bryan Stevenson;

and Robert Pinsky reading his poems as part o a

quartet with musicians Vijay Iyer, Ben Allison, and

Andrew Cyrille.

The New School demonstrates its commitment

to progressive publishing through literary

evenings devoted to anthologies and journals

like The Believer, Tin House, Conjunctions,

McSweeneys, Fence, Open City, BOMB, Artforum,

Agni, Best American Poetry, and Best American

Movie Writing.

New School writing students have recently heard

such established and emerging writers, critics,

and artists as ydia Davis, Yuse Komunyakaa,

Paul Auster, C.K. Williams, Anne Carson, Peter

Carey, George Saunders, Caryl Phillips, Bradord

Morrow, Jo Ann Beard, Kate Braveman, Kelly

ink, ucie Brock-Broido, James Ellroy, Susan

Choi, Nathaniel Mackey, Joanna Klink, Terese

Svoboda, Joe Wenderoth, Steve Erickson.

Jacqueline Woodson, Walter Dean Myers, ynne

Tillman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael arper,

John Ashbery, arry Matthews, Fanny owe, Frank

Bidart, Dana Gioia, ou Reed, James Tate, Marie

Ponsot, Jorie Graham, Richard oward, Robert

Creely, Charles Bernstein, Jane irsheld, Jayne

Cortez, Mark Doty, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Mary Karr,

Jonathan Saran Foer, Nick Flynn, Percival Everett,

Philip Gourevitch, Brenda illman, Charles Simic,

Ann auterbach, and John Edgar Wideman.

Upon graduation, writers are encouraged to

submit selections rom their writing theses to

a chapbook contest sponsored by the Writing

Program. The winners are chosen by a panelo independent judges. Each winner receives

100 copies o a 250-copy chapbook press run

published by The New School. Many o these

chapbooks have subsequently led to book

contracts and ull-length publications.

The Writing Program honors the historic

legacy o The New School as a home or the

public intellectual in the tradition initiated here

by writing instructors Anatole Broyard, Robert

owell, and Frank Oara in the early 1960s.

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Founded in 1919

Chartered as a university in 1934

ocated in New York City

University enrollment: 10,000 students

in all degree programs

The New School is a private university in New

York City oering undergraduate, graduate, and

continuing education programs in the liberal arts

and social sciences, management and policy

analysis, design, and the perorming arts.

The academic divisions o the university are The

New School or General Studies, The New School

or Social Research, Milano The New School or

Management and Urban Policy, Parsons The

New School or Design, Eugene ang College

The New School or iberal Arts, Mannes College

The New School or Music, The New School

or Drama, and The New School or Jazz and

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earn more about the graduate program in

Creative Writing in person. Group and individualinormation sessions are held throughout the

year at which you can discuss the program o

study, career directions, costs, and nancial aid.

Admission representatives also travel to other

cities in the United States to meet prospective

students who cannot come to New York City.

earn about and sign up or upcoming admission

events at www.newschool.edu/writing.

deee eQueMents

The MFA curriculum is a 36-credit course o

study, currently with our concentrations: ction,

nonction, poetry, and writing or children. The

program emphasizes literature as a vital artistic

discipline, a creative activity. Writing workshops

are balanced with literature seminars or the rst

three semesters. Workshops are always in the

students concentration, but you may elect to take

some seminars outside your own eld.

In your nal term o residence, you work closely

with an advisor or advisors in independent study

leading to the completion o both a Writing Thesis

and a iterature Project within your concentration:

ction, nonction, poetry, or writing or children.

Every semester in residence, you also earn

one credit or the Writers ie Colloquium.

This requirement is met by participation in a

minimum o eight approved literary or related

events at The New School, including crat

seminars (Fiction Forum, Poetry Forum, etc.),

special readings, publishing roundtables, and

visiting writer residencies.

For a ull description o concentrations,

workshop and seminar requirements, and the

nal writing thesis and literature project, visitwww.newschool.edu/writing.

The creative writing graduate program is designed

to be completed in two years o ull-time study.

All courses and most Writers ie Colloquium

events are conveniently scheduled in the evening.

At this time, part-time study is not an option,

and, due to the integral nature o the curriculum,

transer credits are not accepted.

The New School is an Armative Action/EqualOpportunity Institution.

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The inormation published here represents the planso The New School at the time o publication. Theuniversity reserves the right to change without noticeany matter contained in this publication, includingbut not limited to tuition, ees, policies,degree

programs, names o programs, course oerings,academic activities, academic requirements,acilities, aculty, and administrators. Payment otuition or attendance at any classes shall constitutea students acceptance o the administrations rightsas set orth above.

Photography: Michael DiVito, Don amerman,Bob andelman, Bill ayward, Conway iao,Martin Seck, Nina Subin, Matthew Sussman,Ivy Yoon, The New School Art Collection anduniversity archives.

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Visit www.newschool.edu/studentservices to

see current tuition and ee schedules.

All applicants are considered or merit

scholarships. US residents and permanent

residents should le the Free Application or

Federal Student Aid, available online at www.

asa.ed.gov (the FAFSA school code is 002780).

The New School participates in all ederal and

New York State need-based nancial assistance

programs, including campus employment

and student loans. All need-based nancial

assistance is awarded in accordance with

ederal ormulas and regulations.

Toward the end o the second semester, MFA

students can apply or teaching assistantships

in the Riggio onors Program, a program or

gited undergraduates unded by the eonard and

ouise Riggio Writing & Democracy Initiative.

student FnAncAl sevces

For more inormation about the costs o attending

graduate school and nancial assistance, see

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in the vicinity o the Greenwich Village campus,including a number o options or graduate

students. Applicants who are interested in

university housing should apply as soon as they

receive their admission decision; spaces are

awarded on a rst-come, rst-served basis. More

inormation and application orms are available at

www.newschool.edu and student services.

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