Author Anne Valente will join SFUAD’s Creative Writing and Literature Department in Fall, 2015.

Jade Parks, Michaela Rempel and Adriel Contreras wrap up the CWL Senior Reading series at 7 p.m., Tuesday April 28, 2015.

As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Michaela Rempel. Rempel discussed “Nighthawks,” never turning off her brain and played MFK with science fiction giants.

The woman, the poet, the teacher: Jackalope Magazine talks to departing CWL co-chair Dana Levin about her tenure with the department, as well as the colleagues and students who will miss her.

As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Bailey Schaumburg. Schaumburg discussed sass, self aware poetry and poet-lady sex. Schaumburg reads with Mark Feigenbutz and Leticia Gonzales at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 21 in O’Shaughnessy Performance Space.    Jackalope Magazine: How dare you? Bailey Schaumburg: I like to throw sass back when I get the sass. It’s like sass softball.   JM: How did you get into writing? BS: I’ve always liked writing, but I took a creative writing class in high school and just loved it.   JM: What genre do you work in and why? BS: Poetry. (awkward pause)   JM: OK, do you work in other genres as well? BS: Not really. I like to pull things from other genres into my poetry. Or try to. I fail miserably sometimes. I’d say fiction actually has helped me most, because it helps to tell lies.   JM: What three words would you use to describe your writing? BS: Uhh. The only three words that comes to mind are: bloody, shitty and badass. (laughs)   JM: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever written? BS: One time I wrote a poem about writing poems that was really self aware. It was horrible. It was sappy, maudlinesky as Dana [Levin)] would say. It was called the “Poem Poem” or something like that. It was bad.   JM: How do you balance work and family? BS: Yeah, I have a daughter named Calypso. Not really. I don’t very well.   JM: Marrry, Fuck, Kill: Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Ashton Kutcher. BS: Oh God. Fuck Sylvia, Marry Ashton, Kill Gertrude Stein. Sylvia and I would have crazed poet-lady sex!...

Veronica Menne, one of the three senior readers for the April 7 kickoff Senior Reading answers our weekly questions.

Jackalope Magazine continues its ongoing Senior Reading series. This week: Schuyler Hall Gilmore.

There was no order. Invitations—spoons—were left in Susanne Miller’s office for any curious party. The menu consisted of Quiche, Chicken Wings and Peeps. The more than 20 students who showed up weren’t sure what was in store for the night—sometimes even the event organizers weren’t sure. In other words, the March 31 celebration of Coffee Spoons in O’Shaughnessy Performance Space was quintessential Creative Writing Department. Coffee Spoons, the little loved online literary magazine, was started as a direct response to Glyph. One of its founders, Brandon Brown, views it as a place where all students, regardless of majors, can get their work out there for the world to see. But, in the magazine’s short existence, very few have paid attention. “It’s been hard this semester,” he said, citing the hectic schedule of the typical SFUAD student and a lack of a solid marketing plan. Regardless, Brown, Melinda Freudenberger, Marina Woollven, Amaya Garza and Serafima Fedorova, the Coffee Spoons staff, continue working. Each staff member wears many hats; between proofing, publishing, web design, event planning and peer editing, everyone does everything. “A lot of frazzled meetings,” Freudenberger admits. The Coffee Spoons event was meant to get more people talking about the magazine, but for Brown, it was mostly about bringing people together. “The whole deal is to get people in a room talking,” he said. “Maybe I’m a sap, but that’s how I feel.” Freudenberger agreed. “There is a sense of secrecy in the writing department,” she said. “Which is unnecessary. Other majors don’t have that fear.” No one at the event had that fear. Attendees were given a physical handmade copy of The Coffee Spoon, a collection of the first two issues from the website, and many gave readings. Writing majors Andrew Koss and Charles Simon, with...

In an ongoing series of interviews with SFUAD CWL Senior Reading Class members, Jackalope interviews Leticia Gonzales.

As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with screenwriter Mark Feigenbutz. Feigenbutz discussed bad poetry, bears and dead comedians.   Jackalope Magazine: How dare you? Mark Feigenbutz: How dare I? How dare I not?   JM: How did you get into writing? MF: I started writing poetry when I was, like, 6th grade. I was not 6th grade, I was 13.   JM: What genre do you work in and why? MF: Pretty much exclusively comedy at this point. If I don’t have funny elements in something, it just doesn’t ring true. After poetry, I got into stand-up comedy, and started writing bits. When I was in L.A. I had to sell my motorcycle, and I couldn’t do comedy anymore, so I started screenwriting.   JM: What three words would you use to describe your writing? MF: My writing in three words? Bear. (laughs)   JM: Like B-A-R-E? MF: No, like a grizzly. Bear. Machine. Uhh, squeek.   JM: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever written? MF: Probably my early poetry, when I first started writing. I didn’t know anything about poetry, so I thought everything had to rhyme. It was pretty embarassing, very morose and melodramatic.   JM: Do you have a piece in mind? MF: (long pause) Yeah. Yes, I do.   JM: How do you balance work and family? MF: I try to work as little as possible, and it’s going really good.   JM: OK, now it’s time for the dead stand-up edition of Marry, Fuck, Kill. Bill Hicks, George Carlin and Mitch Hedburg. MF: Marry George Carlin, Fuck Bill Hicks and Kill Mitch Hedburg, as difficult as that was. Bill Hicks is fucking Jesus, and I...

SFUAD’s new tennis club, Team Racket, has already generated interest from players.

As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Jacey Ellis. Ellis discussed lying to herself, scrumtrulesence, and played a special British Invasion version of Marry, Shag, Kill.

Writer Matt Bell visits SFUAD’s Creative Writing and Literature Department for its visiting writer series.

As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Zoe Baillargeon. Baillargeon discussed hashtags, learning to be funny and late night television hosts.   Jackalope Magazine: How dare you? Zoe Baillargeon: I just do. You know? I am me.   JM: How did you get into writing? ZB: I was originally a writer as a little girl, and then I got sidetracked by theater. Then during a study abroad, I realized I didn’t want to be in theater anymore, I wanted to be a writer.   JM: What genre do you work in and why? ZB: Usually fiction but I’m going into nonfiction at the moment. I just think that fiction was easier to start off in. I never really considered myself a poet. In nonfiction I just felt like my life wasn’t interesting enough; then I learned how to be funny. Then, I learned how to put a twist on my life.   JM: What three words would you use to describe your writing? ZB: Quirky, sarcastic and off the wall.   JM: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever written? ZB: A story written entirely in hashtags about a basic bitch owning a bonsai tree, and she chronicles that on Twitter, and basically ends up killing the tree.   JM: Why was that the worst thing you ever wrote? ZB: Because it was written entirely in hashtags! (laughs) It was an experiment.   JM: How do you balance work and family? ZB: Lots of stress. There’s not really balance at the moment.   JM: Marry, Fuck, Kill: Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. ZB: Oh man. Fuck Jon Stewart, because hell yeah. Marry Jimmy Fallon and I guess...