Fresno State MFA

New on YouTube: In honor of the Fresno State MFA program's 25th anniversary this year, we connected with distinguished alumni Sasha Pimentel, Jeffery Gleaves, and Navdeep Singh Dhillon to ask them to reflect on being part of the #FresnoWriters community. Watch: http://bit.ly/MFA25-videos

It's Student Ratings Week at Fresno State, and English Department faculty Dr. William Arcé is asking students for their help. If you're a current student, please share your feedback on the virtual forms provided in each of your classes, so our faculty can better assess your needs for instruction.

"Although my neighborhood seemed, and still seems, to be under attack every other week, it’s never hindered my dreams and goals in life, and I haven’t done anything alone." From the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State's blog: Get to know English Education student Claudia Amador, our English Department's BA Student of Distinction. Story: https://bit.ly/3aCYjnn

Alumna Megan Bohigian reads her new poem for Fresno

MFA alumna Megan Bohigian will be Fresno's new poet laureate!

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 14/15: Sarah A. Chavez No matter how thick a brick, how many stacked planks, how solid something looks, there is a hollow lurking beneath... Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez14 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 13/15: Sarah A. Chavez But they are all so happy! The women with their balayages, and blonde highlights,... with their pixies, and symmetry. Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez13 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 12/15: Sarah A. Chavez Full disclosure, there is literal dirt under my fingernails right this moment. Dirt and paint and ink, no polish.... Read the piece: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez12 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 11/15: Sarah A. Chavez The pressure that wells in her throat threatens ... to choke, but this is not the time (this is never the time). Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez11 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 10/15: Sarah A. Chavez Dear To Whom It May Concern, There’s no telling what the world is like, but ... I assume you are still alive. Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez10 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 9/15: Sarah A. Chavez I count the budding peppers on the Fresno chile, the purple... sprouts in the potato patch, the bulbs that have opened on the star plant Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez9 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 15/15: Juan Luis Guzmán I know someday I will feel what my father does. Someday, my body too will become insufficient. Isn’t that the duty of a son? Of a body?... Read the piece: http://bit.ly/f15-guzman15 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 8/15: Sarah A. Chavez You’re a fickle beast, H says out loud to the water, knowing anything she says will... be swallowed immediately. Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez8 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 14/15: Juan Luis Guzmán The United States is one of the only countries that allows high frequency donations of plasma, and that enables pharmaceutical companies in the US and around the world to profit from the blood of Mexicans.... Read the piece: http://bit.ly/f15-guzman14 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 7/15: Sarah A. Chavez Her inability to be wholly any/one thing: not white enough to not be affected, not... brown enough for the most extreme violences. Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez7 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 13/15: Juan Luis Guzmán This essay begins with a photograph: my father holding me as a boy. He does not know the eye of the lens is on him.... Read the piece: http://bit.ly/f15-guzman13 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 6/15: Sarah A. Chavez Without my ancestors, I would be nothing, H hears others say. Without my ancestors, I guess I wouldn’t be breathing, she thinks.... Read the poem: http://bit.ly/f15-chavez6 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020

The Fresno 15 Creative Writing Marathon Day 12/15: Juan Luis Guzmán Juan Luis is the name my father gives me at birth. Without platelets in the body, blood does not clot.... A wound can bleed and bleed and bleed. I am the knife that cuts my father. Read the piece: http://bit.ly/f15-guzman12 Support: http://bit.ly/fresno15-2020