Former Resident Writers:

 

Wendy Ranan has a new poetry collection called The Quiet Room out with Deer Brook Editions.

Carolyn Stoloff has had poems published in Salamander, Confrontation, Alaska Quarterly Review, NEW VERSE NEWS, Parting Gifts, Skidrow Penthouse, and Zoland Poems.

Paolo Javier is 5th and Current Poet Laureate of Queens.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman presented a series of photographs, "Sestina For Bernadette Mayer" as part of the Humble Arts Foundation's "Manual Transmission" exhibition, as well as the poem-as-slideshow, "Monster Island Czar," at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

Daniela Gioseffi has just published the novel WILD NIGHTS, WILD NIGHTS: The Story of Emily Dickinson's Master and also won a John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award in
Poetry.

Kristen-Paige Madonia Gordon won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Award judged by Jill McCorkle.

Aífe Murray's new book Maid as Muse How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life and Language is out with UPNE.

Kim Roberts' third book, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington DC, has just been released. More info here.

Allison Carter's poems made at The Millay Colony are online at Conjunctions.

 

Former Resident Visual Artists:

Jennifer Karady's ongoing project/exhibition Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan is on view at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY through August 27, 2011. www.jenniferkarady.com

Letha Wilson is featured in a few shows this summer. "Summer Time" at Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC through August 24. "Off Road" at Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO through September 3. "Late Summer Blues" at Storefront, Brooklyn, NY through August 7.

Carl Ferrero participates in the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Biennial on exhibit through September 5, 2011. www.bronxmuseum.org

Selena Kimball will be showing new work in three exhibitions this summer. "Selena Kimball, Josef Loretan" at WOLFSTÆDTER Galerie through August 27, Frankfurt, Germany. "i am not monogamous, i heart poetry" at Feature, Inc through August 6, NYC. "Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball & Tatiana Simonova: Drawings" at SPACE gallery through August 5, Portland, ME.

Marci MacGuffie created a site-specific painting/installation for the group show Draw the Line at Allegra La Viola Gallery, NYC. Her piece, Kneading A Hollow Donut, will be on view with the exhibit through August 6, 2011.

Molly Springfield is part of the group exhibition Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists at University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia: August 18-October 16, 2011.

Check out Amy Jean Porter's irregular posts at The Awl called Drawings in a Hurry!

 

Former Composers:

 

A concert devoted to the music of Joel Feigin took place on March 25, 2010 in the Great Hall of L. V. Sabinov Conservatory, Saratov, Russia. Also, his piece, Five Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, has won two prizes in the Third Millennium Ensemble Composers' Competition: 1st prize in the overall category plus the Cheryl A. Spector Prize for the best piece by a GLBT composer.

Timothy Brown's short choral work Afternoon on a Hill, a setting of the Millay poem, premiered with The Aquarius Kamermoor in Belgium. More information on this and more at Brown's new website http://www.timothyjbrown.net/

Randy Partain is blogging at Composing My Life. randypartain.blogspot.com