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<\/a>(MINNEAPOLIS) \u2013 California poet Marci Vogel was selected as recipient of the inaugural national literary prize from Augsburg College\u2019s Howling Bird Press, the publishing arm of the College\u2019s Master of Fine Arts program. Vogel\u2019s book-length collection of poetry \u2013 selected through blind reviews from a field of more than 60 manuscripts from across the nation \u2013 explores American life, art, history and culture through a range of eclectic voices, forms, images and styles.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are pleased that so many accomplished poets entrusted their manuscripts to us. It means that Howling Bird Press, one of the few graduate student-run publishing houses in the country, is recognized as a significant literary home for writers\u2019 work,\u201d said Cass Dalglish, director of Augsburg\u2019s MFA program.<\/p>\n
Dalglish described Vogel\u2019s work as careful, confident and intriguing.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything counts in Marci Vogel\u2019s poems \u2013 image, metaphor, silence, punctuation,\u201d Dalglish said. \u201cMarci\u2019s clear, poetic voice will resonate at the core of students\u2019 work this year as we design, layout and publish her book.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vogel, a native of Los Angeles, will have her book \u201cAt the Border of Wilshire & Nobody\u201d published next summer and will receive $1,000. The collection will be edited, designed and marketed by students in the MFA\u2019s Career Concentration in Publishing.<\/p>\n
Vogel is a Provost\u2019s Fellow in the Ph.D. program in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California where she teaches in the honors writing program. She is a long-time writer of prose who began writing poetry in her forties. Vogel\u2019s work has been published in many journals and her work has earned prestigious national nominations including for the Rona Jaffe Writers\u2019 Award, the \u201cBest New Poets\u201d anthology, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Project and the Pushcart Prize. Vogel’s translation from French into English of Andr\u00e9e Chedid\u2019s 1956 poetry sequence, \u201cIn the Noon of Contradictions,” was selected for the 2014 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.<\/p>\n
Augsburg College\u2019s MFA program, sponsor of the national literary award, is a two-year, low-residency program that offers tracks in creative nonfiction, fiction, playwriting, poetry and screenwriting. Concentrations are available in publishing, teaching and translation. Learn more about the program at www.augsburg.edu\/mfa<\/a>. Augsburg College is set in a vibrant Minneapolis neighborhood in the heart of the Twin Cities and offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate degrees to nearly 4,000 students of diverse backgrounds. The trademark of an Augsburg education is its emphasis on direct, personal experience. Guided by the faith and values of the Lutheran church, Augsburg educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Howling Bird Press Literary Prize draws 60-plus manuscripts from across nation (MINNEAPOLIS) \u2013 California poet Marci Vogel was selected as recipient of the inaugural national literary prize from Augsburg College\u2019s Howling Bird Press, the publishing arm of the College\u2019s Master of Fine Arts program. Vogel\u2019s book-length collection of poetry \u2013 selected through blind reviews from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231],"tags":[3461,523,3459,3460,1895],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-book-award","tag-cass-dalglish","tag-howling-bird-press","tag-marci-vogel","tag-mfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}