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Alan Soldofsky

@ADSoldof

Poet, Professor and Director of Creative Writing at San Jose State UIniversity

Don't miss hearing from these up and coming future authors. There's much talent in SJSU's MFA program. These MFA candidates will be sharing short excerpts from the theses projects.

Our MFA Thesis Reading and Celebration is this Saturday, May 13, 2-4PM! Everyone is invited to share the event link so friends, family and faculty who wish to attend can have access to the reading. (Continue reading the thread below for important information!)

sjsu_english's tweet image. Our MFA Thesis Reading and Celebration is this Saturday, May 13, 2-4PM! Everyone is invited to share the event link so friends, family and faculty who wish to attend can have access to the reading. 

(Continue reading the thread below for important information!)


Alan Soldofsky reposted

Join CLA on April 13, 2023 7PM @ Hammer Theater for a reading with Hanif Abdurraqib, award winning author of A Little Devil in America and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. The in-person reading is sold out, but will be livestreamed on CLA’s website: clasanjose.org

sjsu_english's tweet image. Join CLA on April 13, 2023 7PM @ Hammer Theater for a reading with Hanif Abdurraqib, award winning author of A Little Devil in America and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. The in-person reading is sold out, but will be livestreamed on CLA’s website: clasanjose.org

A much deserved award!

Our MFA Thesis Reading and Celebration is this Saturday, May 13, 2-4PM! Everyone is invited to share the event link so friends, family and faculty who wish to attend can have access to the reading. (Continue reading the thread below for important information!)

sjsu_english's tweet image. Our MFA Thesis Reading and Celebration is this Saturday, May 13, 2-4PM! Everyone is invited to share the event link so friends, family and faculty who wish to attend can have access to the reading. 

(Continue reading the thread below for important information!)


You can read my poem "At the Polls" in The Rise Up Review's just released winter issue. Here is the link: riseupreview.org/alan-Alan Soldofsky, Poet

Welcome to the winter issue of the Rise Up Review. Publishing fierce political poetry since the f*cked up presidential election of 2016. riseupreview.org/current-issue #resistanceisfertile #poetry #resist #protest



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“Writing makes you unique,” says @SJSU_HA Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Tom Moriarty. "ChatGPT makes you sound like everybody else.” Moriarty answers questions about #ChatGPT — or does the software? — @SJSUNewsCenter. See for yourself: buff.ly/3xjsf2V

SJSU's tweet image. “Writing makes you unique,” says @SJSU_HA Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Tom Moriarty. "ChatGPT makes you sound like everybody else.” 

Moriarty answers questions about #ChatGPT — or does the software? — @SJSUNewsCenter. See for yourself: buff.ly/3xjsf2V

Alan Soldofsky reposted

Are you a fan of Microfiction? Check out the newest collection - including Pamela Painter's "Empty Day" (published by Pangyrus!)

Pangyrus's tweet image. Are you a fan of Microfiction? 

Check out the newest collection - including Pamela Painter's "Empty Day" (published by Pangyrus!)

There are still 3 days left to submit an application to the dual-genre MFA Program at SJSU sanjosemfa.com. We're looking to recruit more qualified Poets. Also Nonfiction writers. You'll have three weeks after the deadline to finish submitting all supporting documents.

The deadline for MFA applications is this Wednesday! Visit sanjosemfa.com for more info!



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Prospective MFA students! There's still time to apply for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Writing program @SJSU ! The application deadline is February 15th. Visit sanjosemfa.com to learn why you should choose our MFA program!

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There's still time to apply for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Writing program @SJSU ! The application deadline is February 15th. Visit sanjosemfa.com to learn why you should choose our MFA program!

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There is still time to apply to the SJSU MFA Program in Creative Writing, the only fully dual-genre MFA Program in Northern California. The deadline is Wednesday, February 1st. For more information and links, please visit: sanjosemfa.com.

sjsu_english's tweet image. There is still time to apply to the SJSU MFA Program in Creative Writing, the only fully dual-genre MFA Program in Northern California. The deadline is Wednesday, February 1st. For more information and links, please visit: sanjosemfa.com.

There is still time to time to sign up for the MFA Program Open House on Jan. 23. The MFA in Creative Writing application deadline is Feb. 1. @sjsuenglishdepartment instagram.com/p/CnNpWzCvGRJ/…

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Don't forget! The MFA Open House is coming up on Monday, Jan 23 from 5-6:30pm! Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link for this virtual event: forms.gle/9wLZhbjSNmYk2j…



Alan Soldofsky reposted

The Steinbeck Center will host their Fall 2022 Steinbeck Fellows reading tomorrow at 7PM PST both via Zoom and in person. Use this link to register to attend via Zoom: bit.ly/3N1PDsv

sjsu_english's tweet image. The Steinbeck Center will host their Fall 2022 Steinbeck Fellows reading tomorrow at 7PM PST both via Zoom and in person. Use this link to register to attend via Zoom: bit.ly/3N1PDsv

If you're looking for a Bay Area MFA program, look no further than SJSU. MFA applications open until Feb. 1. To apply go to: calstate.edu/apply/graduate. Join us next week to meet our faculty and students in-person and online. And get your questions answered.

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Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email [email protected] to RSVP.

sjsu_english's tweet image. Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email english@sjsu.edu to RSVP.
sjsu_english's tweet image. Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email english@sjsu.edu to RSVP.
sjsu_english's tweet image. Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email english@sjsu.edu to RSVP.


Over the weekend we lost Gerald Stern (Feb. 22, 1925 - Oct. 27, 2022), a major poet. On several Jerry occasions visited us at San Jose State University when I directed the Center for Literary Arts. I loved Jerry as a friend and a member of my extended family.

ADSoldof's tweet image. Over the weekend we lost Gerald Stern (Feb. 22, 1925 - Oct. 27, 2022), a major poet.  On several Jerry occasions visited us at San Jose State University when I directed the Center for Literary Arts.  I loved Jerry as a friend and a member of my extended family.
ADSoldof's tweet image. Over the weekend we lost Gerald Stern (Feb. 22, 1925 - Oct. 27, 2022), a major poet.  On several Jerry occasions visited us at San Jose State University when I directed the Center for Literary Arts.  I loved Jerry as a friend and a member of my extended family.

This is a book that should included in the curriculum.

Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email [email protected] to RSVP.

sjsu_english's tweet image. Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email english@sjsu.edu to RSVP.
sjsu_english's tweet image. Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email english@sjsu.edu to RSVP.
sjsu_english's tweet image. Don't forget to join us for Creative Writing Week next week!!! Email english@sjsu.edu to RSVP.


Alan Soldofsky reposted

This is what courage looks like… A young Iranian girl writes “Death to Khamenei” in broad daylight on a wall in Tehran. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #WomanLifeFreedom #زن_زندگی_آزادی #IranRevolution


Alan Soldofsky reposted

uncanny to see this poem being shared today. written in 2015, published in my collection Habitat Threshold (2020)

craigsperez's tweet image. uncanny to see this poem being shared today. written in 2015, published in my collection Habitat Threshold (2020)

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