MFA Greensboro Faculty Member David Roderick Featured at the Poetry Foundation

Dear Suburb
by David Roderick
I’m not interested in sadness,
just a yard as elder earth,
a library of sunflowers
battered by the night’s rain.
When sliced wide, halved at dawn,
I can see how you exist,
O satellite town, your bright possibility
born again in drywall
and the diary with the trick lock.

Read the entire poem here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=238286

Find out more about the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro here:
http://mfagreensboro.org

MFA Greensboro Alum David Rigsbee Reviews 'Slantwise' for "The Cortland Review"

Slantwise by Betty Adcock      

Slantwise
by Betty Adcock
83 pages
LSU Press, 2008


The title of course directs us to Dickinson's truth, also to the truth that to be slant is somehow to repose, diagonally, in wisdom. There is in fact so much mojo in the title that we are hooked up with poetic goodness before we even venture into the first poem. Betty Adcock has been writing an agreeable brand of poem for years and has built a fan base that would make a Republican candidate sit up and beg for buttermilk. In Slantwise, she doesn't disappoint.

Read the entire review here:
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/45/rigsbee_r.html

Find out more about the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro here:
http://mfagreensboro.org