Carlow University MFA in Creative Writing Program

So very excited for our mentor and dear friend Joseph Bathanti. As all of Joseph's students can attest, he is well-deserving of this honor.

N.C. poet laureate sets up shop in Heinz History Center How does a boy from East Liberty end up as poet laureate of North Carolina? Interesting story that, according to Joseph Bathanti, who is back in Pittsburgh this month as the first scholar-in-residence at the Heinz History Center. Mr. Bathanti, professor of creative writing at Appalachian State Unive...

Even more exciting news for our poetry mentor Jan Beatty, who was named by Best American Poetry judge Denise Duhamel as one of the top "ten female poets you NEED to read" in a Huffington Post article this week. Well-earned congratulations, Jan!

10 Female Poets You NEED To Read As the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2013, I had a unique opportunity to examine where we are as a culture in terms of verse.

Have you seen this great spotlight on poetry mentor Jan Beatty?

http://www.carlow.edu/10327.aspx

http://www.carlow.edu/10327.aspx "I believe there are open doors in everybody," she said in her recent Prairie Schooner interview. "If the teacher, if the class, if the student next to them finds a way to tap on that door and that door opens, everything's possible. I really believe that. People have unlimited possibilities."