Creative Writing

Information for Prospective Students

Information for Current Students

General Information


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E-mail: gretchen.legler@maine.edu

Library Resources for Creative Writers

BFA faculty encourage Creative Writing students to READ other writers and find out about writers' lives. UMF's Mantor Library has a selection of literary journals and literary videos that help apprentice writers learn more about craft, publishing, and the writing life.

WRITING-RELATED MAGAZINES IN MANTOR LIBRARY INCLUDE:

American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Atlantic Monthly, The Aurorean, Echoes, Gettysburg Review, Green Mountains Review, Harper's Magazine, Iowa Review, Maine in Print, New American Writing, North American Review, Northern New England Review, Poetry, Poets and Writers, Poetry Northwest, Publishers Weekly, Puckerbrush Review, Sandy River Review, Sewanee Review, Story, Southern Maine Review, Writer, Writer's Digest

 VIDEOTAPES OF LITERARY READINGS IN MANTOR LIBRARY

In addition to the following videos, UMF also archives videos from all Senior Readings, and all Visiting Writers Series events.

251                              Adrienne Rich

272                              Alice Walker

277                              Allen Ginsberg

266                              Amiri Baraka

202                              Ann Beattie (fiction reading)

289                              Anne Waldman

265                              Barry Lopez

320                              Bei Dao

205                Betsy Sholl and Robert Farnsworth (poetry reading)

189                 Bill Roorbach (Cambridge, MA reading)

186                 Bill Roorbach (UMF reading)

286                 Carlos Fuentes

173                 Carolyn Chute (fiction reading)

249                 Carolyn Forche

282                              Carolyn Forche

279                              Czeslaw Milosz

109                              David Ignatow

260                              Denise Levertov

261                              Derek Mahon

111                              Donald Hall

107                              Donald Hall/Wesley McNair

264                              Eavan Boland

207                              Frank Bidart (poetry reading)

208                      Frank Bidart reads AEllen West@

108                      Galway Kinnell

154                      Galway Kinnell

110                      Gary Snyder

184                      Gerald Stern (poetry reading)

256                      Gilbert Sorrentino

206                      Grace Paley (fiction reading)

259                              Hayden Carruth

284                              Ishmael Reed

104                              James Writing, Vol. III

275                              Joy Harjo

273                              Kay Boyle

288                              Larry Heinemann

128                              Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris

247                              Louise Gluck

248                              Lucille Clifton

185                              Lucille Clifton (poetry reading)

201                       Michael Dorris (fiction reading)

278                       Octavio Paz

257                       Pattiann Rogers

258                       Paul West

283                       Peter Reading

280                       Philip Levine

285                       Richard Wilbur

187                              Robert Begiebing/Alfred Depew (fiction reading)

271                              Robert Creeley

165                              Robert Frost in the Country of Milk and Sugar/Wesley McNair

164                              Robert Frost - Versed in Country Things/Wesley McNair

203                              Roland Flint (poetry reading)

267                              Seamus Heaney

188                              Sharon Olds (poetry reading)

250                              Sharon Olds

270                              Sonia Sanchez

183                      Stephen Dun (poetry reading)

263                      Thom Gunn

182                       Tobias Wolff (fiction reading)

274                       Victor Hernandez Cruz

080                       Voices and Visions: Elizabeth Bishop

077                       Voices and Visions: Emily Dickinson

084                       Voices and Visions: Ezra Pound

073                       Voices and Visions: Hart Crane

082                       Voices and Visions: Langston Hughes

074                              Voices and Visions: Marianne Moore

076                              Voices and Visions: Robert Frost

081                              Voices and Visions: Robert Lowell

083                              Voices and Visions: Sylvia Plath

078                              Voices and Visions: T.S. Eliot

075                              Voices and Visions: Wallace Stevens

072                              Voices and Visions: Walt Whitman

079                              Voices and Visions: William Carlos Williams

281                  W. S. Merwin

168                  Wesley McNair/Charles Simic

042                  Wild Man, Wild Woman (Robert Bly)

162                  William Stafford

163                  Works of Robert Frost

276                  Yehuda Amichai

Available with no catalog number:

Annie Proulx

Abigail Stone

Cathie Pelletier

Donald Hall (his most recent reading)

Cooke, O'Donnell, Roorbach (reading from The Quotable Moose)

Hayden, Carruth (his most recent reading)

Lawrence O'Rourke, Lore Segal

Lore Segal (Winter, 1993/94)

Lore Segal (Fall, 1994)

The Quotable Moose (Barnes, Bloom, Carpenter, Peak, Roorbach, Shetterly)

Richard Russo

Sharon Sheehe Stark

Kazuo Ishiguio

Jack Gilbert

Joy Harjo

Barbara Guest

Grace Paley

Lucille Clifton