Creative Writing

Style, Essays, Poetry and Boxes

Check out these new books:

Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style by Tufte, Virginia

Call Number: PE1421 .T78 2006

ISBN: 0961392185

Publication Date: 2006

 

 

 

 

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Call Number: HQ1421 .G39 2014

ISBN: 9780062282712

Publication Date: 2014-08-05

 

 

 

The Empathy Exams by Jamison, Leslie

Call Number: PS3610.A485 E47 2015

ISBN: 9781847088420

Publication Date: 2015

 

 

 

 

Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral

Call Number: PS3603.O7717 S58 2012

ISBN: 9780300178937

Publication Date: 2012-04-03

Building Stories by Chris Ware

Call Number: PN6727.W285 B85 2012 Box

ISBN: 9780375424335

Publication Date: 2012-10-02

The McCarthy Library Poetry Collection Grows . . .

Not Me by Eileen Myles

Call Number: PS3563.Y498 N68 1991

ISBN: 9780936756677

Publication Date: 1991-06-01

 

 

 

 

Fantasy by Ben Fama

Call Number: PS3696.A55 F35 2015

ISBN: 9781937027476

Publication Date: 2015-04-01

 

 

 

Eunoia by Christian Bök

Call Number: PR9199.3.B575 E96 2009

ISBN: 9781552452257

Publication Date: 2005-10-14

 

 

 

 

Dear Jenny We Are All Find by Jenny Zhang

Call Number: PS3626.H36 D43 2012

ISBN: 9780985118204

Publication Date: 2012-03-06

 

 

 

 

From Unincorporated Territory by Perez; Craig Santos Perez

Call Number: PS3619.A598 F75 2008

ISBN: 9780978992965

Publication Date: 2008-09-01

 

Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis

Call Number: PS3612.A9442285 A6 2015

ISBN: 9780822963813

Publication Date: 2015-09-09

 

 

 

Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong

Call Number: PS3608.O494439 D36 2007

ISBN: 9780393333114

Publication Date: 2008-11-17

 

 

 

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Call Number: PS3564.E4687 Z46 2016

ISBN: 9781555977351

Publication Date: 2016-01-26

 

 

 

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Call Number: PS3568.A572 A6 2014

ISBN: 9781555976903

Publication Date: 2014-10-07

 

 

 

The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz

Call Number: PS3603.R893 G58 2012

ISBN: 9781884800979

Publication Date: 2012-10-09

 

 

 

Scarecrone by Melissa Broder

Call Number: PS3602.R6355 S23 2014

ISBN: 9780988750371

Publication Date: 2014-02-25

 

 

 

 

Check them out!

Memoirs @ the McCarthy Library!

Check out these new memoirs and books on writing personal essays at the Doheny Campus Library:

Crafting the Personal Essay by Dinty W. Moore

Call Number: PE1479.A88 M66 2010

ISBN: 9781582977966

Publication Date: 2010-09-08

 

 

 

The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick

Call Number: PR756.A9 G67 2002

ISBN: 9780374528584

Publication Date: 2002-10-11

 

 

 

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

Call Number: NC1429.C525 A2 2014

ISBN: 9781608198061

Publication Date: 2014-05-06

 

 

Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Call Number: AC8.S78135 2011

ISBN: 9780374532901

Publication Date: 2011-10-25

 

 

 

Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard

Call Number: CT275.B5394 A3 1999

ISBN: 9780316085250

Publication Date: 1999-01-29

 

 

 

Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton

Call Number: GV838.S47 A3 2912x

ISBN: 9780399174841

Publication Date: 2016-05-24

 

 

 

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Call Number: PS3564.E4687 B56 2009

ISBN: 9781933517407

Publication Date: 2009-10-01

 

 

 

The Grey Album by Kevin Young

Call Number: NX512.3.A35 Y69 2012

ISBN: 9781555976071

Publication Date: 2012-03-13

 

 

 

My Body Is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta

Call Number: CT275.W316 A3 2014

ISBN: 9781597099691

Publication Date: 2014-08-12

 

 

 

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Call Number: BJ1589.S842012

ISBN: 9780307949332

Publication Date: 2012-07-10

 

 

 

The Next American Essay by John D'Agata (Editor)

Call Number: PS688.N49 2003

ISBN: 9781555973759

Publication Date: 2003-02-01

 

 

 

The Lost Origins of the Essay by John D'Agata (Editor)

Call Number: PN6141.L67 2009

ISBN: 9781555975326

Publication Date: 2009-08-04

 

 

 

The Making of the American Essay by John D'Agata

Call Number: PS682 .M25 2016

ISBN: 9781555977344

Publication Date: 2016-03-15

Some More Contemporary Poetry Books for the McCarthy Library

Check them out & get inspired today!

Ecodeviance by CAConrad

Call Number: PS3603.O555 E36 2014

ISBN: 9781940696003

Publication Date: 2014-09-09

 

 

 

Black Life by Dorothea Lasky

Call Number: PS3612.A858 B47 2010

ISBN: 9781933517438

Publication Date: 2010-04-01

 

 

 

Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss

Call Number: PS3602.I77 N68 2009

ISBN: 9781555975180

Publication Date: 2009-02-03

 

 

 

Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso

Call Number: PS2613.A54 Z46 2015

ISBN: 9781555977030

Publication Date: 2015-03-03

 

 

 

When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

Call Number: PS304.I186 W47 2012

ISBN: 9781556593833

Publication Date: 2012-05-08

 

 

 

Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 by Hoa Nguyen; Anselm Berrigan (Introduction by)

Call Number: PS3614.G88A6 2014

ISBN: 9781933517926

Publication Date: 2014-09-02

 

 

 

Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes

Call Number: PS3558.A8378 W56 2006

ISBN: 9780143036869

Publication Date: 2006-03-28

 

 

 

Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer

Call Number: PS3563.A952 M54 1999

ISBN: 9780811214063

Publication Date: 1999-05-01

 

 

 

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard by Joe Brainard

Call Number: PS3553.R275 2012

ISBN: 9781598532784

Publication Date: 2013-08-29

 

 

 

The New Testament by Jericho Brown

Call Number: PS3602.R699 A6 2014

ISBN: 9781556594571

Publication Date: 2014-09-16

 

 

 

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Call Number: PS3622.U96 A6 2016

ISBN: 9781556594953

Publication Date: 2016-04-05

 

 

Mercury by Ariana Reines

Call Number: PS3618.E56455 M47 2011

ISBN: 9781934200476

Publication Date: 2011-12-06

 

 

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Call Number: PS3623.A7323 Z46 2014

ISBN: 9781608197651

Publication Date: 2014-09-16

 

 

 

Supplication by John Wieners; Joshua Beckman (Editor); C. A. Conrad (Editor); Robert Dewhurst (Editor)

Call Number: PS3573.L35 A6 2015

ISBN: 9781940696195

Publication Date: 2015-10-06

 

 

What about This by Frank Stanford; Dean Young (Introduction by)

Call Number: PS3569.T3316 2015

ISBN: 9781556594687

Publication Date: 2015-04-14

Contemporary Poetry Books at the McCarthy Library

The Opposite of Light by Kimberly Grey

Call Number: PS3607 .R49935 A6 2016

ISBN: 9780892554713

Publication Date: 2016-04-18

 

 

 

An Ecology of Elsewhere by Sandra Meek

Call Number: PS3613 .E372 A6 2016

ISBN: 9780892554737

Publication Date: 2016-05-03

 

 

 

Mz N: the Serial by Maureen N. McLane

Call Number: PS3613 .C5687 A6 2016

ISBN: 9780374218874

Publication Date: 2016-05-17

 

 

 

Brooklyn Antediluvian by Patrick Rosal

Call Number: PS3618 .O774 A6 2016

ISBN: 9780892554744

Publication Date: 2016-05-03

 

 

 

The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay

Call Number: PS3607.I47 A6 2016

ISBN: 9781942683025

Publication Date: 2016-04-12

 

 

 

Incidents of Travel in Poetry by Frank Lima; Garrett Caples (Editor); Julien Poirier (Editor)

Call Number: PS3562.I46 A6 2016

ISBN: 9780872866676

Publication Date: 2016-01-12

 

 

Check them out and get inspired!

LA Theatre Works Audiobooks Available!

MSMU now has access to LA Theatre Works' streaming audiobooks of over 350 plays!

Check them out here.

You may also search for individual titles (that are assigned by your creative writing instructors) in our catalog.

Happy Listening!

This just in . . .

A new poetry book at the Doheny Campus Library!

Check it out:

New poems / Rainer Maria Rilke ; Translated by Len Krisak ; With an Introduction by George C. Schoolfield

Call Number: PT2635.I65 A6 2015

Located in the Main Stacks (on the 2nd floor of the library)

Happy National Poetry Month!

New Literary Journal Collection

Thanks to the generosity of MSMU alumna, Diane DeAnda, the Doheny campus library has more poetry and short story literary journals!  Check out this new collection to read contemporary literary voices and consider submitting your own creative efforts to these journals.

Dr. DeAnda is a successful author in her own right.

The journals include:

Prairie Schooner (AP2 .P85285)

Shenandoah (PN1 .S528)

AGNI (PS501 .A33)

Ploughshares (PS501 .P55)

Gulf Coast (PS508 .C6 G8)

Crazyhorse (PS508 .C78)

Glimmer Train Stories (PS642 .G57)

Poetry (PR4142p)

They are located on the 2nd floor, between the older periodicals and the Sr. Vivian Collection.

April is National Poetry Month!

T.S. Eliot wrote, "April is the cruellest month."  It's also a month to celebrate great poets of the past and revel in the lyrical, meaningful creations of great poets of the present.

Let this April inspire your creativity as you check out the resources - both free and subscription-based  - available through your MSMU libraries!

In the library:

On the Web:

Writer's Almanac (brought to you by American Public Media)

Tweetspeak Poetry

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Annalemma

Poets & Writers

Slope

Narrative Magazine

Triquarterly