by: Bret Lott Creative Writing Professor Bret Lott is leading the summer, 2017, study abroad program in Spoleto, Italy. Cari Lettori (look it up): Day 3 is our first Saturday, which means our first day trip. In honor of Italy’s greatest poet, because these are writing...
by: Bret Lott Ciao! Day number two broke bright and early and gave us the view below of the fields sloping down into the Umbrian Valley. This was taken at 6:00, when the rooster next door got to work in earnest. It’s the same view as every time we are here, but...
by: Bret Lott Buongiorno! This is our eighth year in the villa, a 15th century farmhouse just outside town that looks out on the Umbrian Valley toward Assisi. This year we have fourteen students from five different states and with six different majors, and I send the...
Josh Lowder for his poem “Interstate Pyre Song” and Charlie Baker for his story “Mimi’s Mother” This year’s judge for poetry was Erica Dawson, author of the collections The Small Blades Hurt and Big-Eyed Afraid. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Birmingham...
