Arcadia University MFA in Creative Writing

03/26/2026

Congrats to recent poetry alum Justine Defever for becoming the newest writer-in-residence for the Good Hart Artist Residency!

Explore Justine Defever, a Michigan poet-in-residence, as she creates new works inspired by the beauty of northern Michigan. Discover her journey!

10/08/2025

Check out second-year poetry student Alissa Hetherington’s poem “Shakespeare & Sympathy” in the newest issue of Beyond Words Magazine!

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09/28/2025

Congrats to poetry graduate Justine Defever for publishing her poem “Flowers for Edith” in The Metropolitan Review!

New Poetry from The Metropolitan Review

06/09/2025

Recent poetry graduate Micah Brewer’s poem “Bumbles” is in the newest issue of Carolina Muse. Check it out!

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05/06/2025

Check out alum Sara Wenger’s poem “Estrangements” in the newest issue of “The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry”!

04/14/2025

Please enjoy another poem by Jessie Anne Harrison called “Playing Hamlet While Trump Gets Re-Elected” in the newest issue of Half and One!

If I didn’t kill myself in high school,

03/15/2025

Check out second-year poet Jessie Anne Harrison’s poems in the newest issue of The 2River View!

I’m twenty-five and still get sweaty hands Standing in an elementary school cafeteria, And I dread walking past those short tables, Certain I’ll overhear the sixth graders Whispering about my frizzy hair and glasses. When I’m handed a tray with nachos and beans, I’m embarrassed that the lunc...

03/04/2025

Second-year poetry student Jessie Ann Harrison has just published her poem “I Loved Theatre in High School, But I Got Too Busy” in To Write a Refuge. Check it out!

To be in America in 2025 is many things - disorienting, anxiety-inducing, overwhelming, hopeless. We all need the occasional refuge, the safe place to smile again, to see joy and beauty before recharging and gathering our courage - whether that's the courage to protest, to practice civil disobedienc...

02/05/2025

Check out second-year poetry student Jessie Ann Harrison's poem "No, I Don't Regret Loving You" in the newest issue of The Prose Poem!

Not because it was a steppingstone to better water. Nor because I miss the current you pulled me under. (I craved the roar and the pressure, then.) It’s not the tug of nostalgia’s tide. That old love was not a bucket I added to the pool my lily pad now rests in. It wasn’t a steppingstone. I ca...

01/30/2025

Congratulations goes out to recent poetry grad Justine Defever for winning first place in ZO Magazine's Decennalia Poetry Expo! Check out her award-winning poem "I Miss Being 10 Years Old."

I Miss Being 10 Years Old

01/22/2025

Second-year poetry student Christian Heigler placed second in a contest run by Humans of the World with his poem "The Moon Is a Tease." Congrats Christian!

The moon doesn’t want to be photographed.Can’t be photographed because her beautycannot be captured by man-made machines. She must be captured by naked hands,her likeness attempted with gentle chalk,brazen charcoal, soft watercolors. Her craters are invitations, doe-likeand admiring each and eve...