Former Resident Writers:

 

Paolo Javier was named 5th 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.

E. Tracey Grinnell co-edited NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF kari edwards, now available at Small Press Distribution.

Mary Sue Price is still writing plays and just won her second Emmy as scriptwriter for "General Hospital."

Kat Smith's directorial debut, The Clearing, debuts on Strike TV.

S. Bear Bergman's new book The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is out with Arsenal Pulp Press. Available here.

N.M. Kelby has two new books. The Constant Art of Being a Writer: The Life, Art & Business of Fiction and A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts. For ordering info and tour dates go to www.nmkelby.com

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

Stacie Cassarino has her first book of poems, Zero at the Bone, out with New Issues Press.

 

Former Resident Visual Artists:

 

Naoe Suzuki has an exhibit at the Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University: Mi Tigre, My Lover from September 7 - October 1, 2010.

Kip Deeds had an exhibit of his drawings, paintings, and books at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center this August. In November, Deeds will exhibit artwork (in a two person exhibit) at The University City Arts League in Philadelphia.

Kirsten Stolle has work in New American Paintings Issue #85. Also, check "Anatomy of a Future Forest Show" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery. Her painting Orbis Erthyromite has been acquired for the San Jose Museum of Art's permanent collection.

Maddy Rosenberg recently opened Central Booking, a two gallery space in DUMBO, Brooklyn, focusing on artist's books and prints and their integration into the larger art world.

Diane Savona's exhibit of contemporary textile art, Closet Archaeology, is at The Hermitage Museum through September 26, 2010. Artist Talk and Digital Presentation Thursday, March 18 at 7:30pm. Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ. www.dianesavonaart.com.

Vaughn Bell has images up from "Landscape for Walking", a walking stick for finding landscape in the urban realm, at www.vaughnbell.net.

Molly Springfield has a solo exhibition of her Proust "Translation" project at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago. Other work is included in shows at The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA, and Fraser Gallery in Bethesda, MD.

Christine Hiebert has three wall drawings at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College near Boston.

Giovanna Cecchetti features in a new exhibit Secret Stories at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park. Stowe, VT.

Larry Warshaw's mural sized painting Millay's Place was recently installed in the Canal Street Post Office in Soho, NYC. The 12' by 10' piece represents his stay at Millay Colony.

 

Former Composers:

 

Martin Hennessy's music featured in Voices Up: New Poems Set to Music at Fordham University this Spring.

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