Scott Korb

Jun 26, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Scott Korb |Deborah Blum |Brent Cunningham |Jay Griffiths

Most honest discussions that bring together food and animals are really, at bottom, about suffering and killing and death, topics that we all know have a way of making people feel bad. This is especially true, I’ve found, if those people are young college students whose lives have been relatively unburdened by the kinds of suffering and death—and the increasingly regular thoughts about such things—that go along with honest living in the world.

May 19, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Brent Cunningham |Scott Korb |Jason Goodwin |Nathaniel Rich

Betty Jo Patton spent her childhood on a 240-acre farm in Mason County, West Virginia, in the 1930s. Her family raised what it ate, from tomatoes to turkeys, pears to pigs. They picked, plucked, slaughtered, butchered, cured, canned, preserved, and rendered. They drew water from a well, cooked on a wood stove, and the bathroom was an outhouse.

Apr 11, 2024 | pacificu.edu | Scott Korb

The Pacific University MFA is thrilled to celebrate the news that faculty poet Kwame Dawes has been named the Poet Laureate of Jamaica, serving a term lasting from 2024-2027. Dawes has long been a member of the MFA poetry faculty, a guiding hand working steadfastly to build a more diverse and equitable program and lending his name to the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Scholarship.

Feb 26, 2024 | pacificu.edu | Scott Korb

Through the Fall 2023 and into the winter 2024, the Pacific MFA in Writing program once again hosted two sessions of the Mapmakers Alumni Institute, both hosted by Mapmakers Scholar Angela Wang MFA '23 (Nonfiction). Videos of both events are now available!In October, Angela presented "The Human in Humor,"featuring Sanjiv Bhattacharya and Bernard Cooper.

Jan 31, 2024 | pacificu.edu | Scott Korb

Shella Parcarey MFA '24 has been awarded the Spring 2024 Mapmakers Teaching Assistantship, a competitive opportunity co-sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts and English programs. The assistantship is open to all MFA students entering their 3rd or 4th semesters who have been awarded the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Scholarship. The Mapmakers scholarship currently offers partial tuition awards to exceptional students of color, and this teaching fellowship offers an additional stipend.