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Belonging and Exile

Belonging and Exile

The Cheuse Center presents its theme for the year. We present 25 writers, some of whom are visiting America from India and Ukraine. We have Kurdish Iraqi translations, a Russian exile, a Cuban exile's work. Meet our Cheuse Fellows, and local writers from across the world too. Stay tuned and come join us in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC for more than 10 events this Fall.

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Welcoming our annual Writer-in-Residence

Welcoming our annual Writer-in-Residence

Between October 13th and November 5th, the Cheuse Center will host our Annual Writer in Residence in partnership with Spain Arts and Culture. Find events across town and in cities across America listed here for ease of reference.

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The Capital of Stories for Sale

The Capital of Stories for Sale

"Argentina was once named the bookstore capital of the world. With 25 bookstores for every 100,000 inhabitants, it was hard to cross a street and not peek into the windows of book-spine candy shops and collections of old newspapers, or locals reselling browned copies, or outside markets propped by subway stations."

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Letter from Founding Director, Matthew Davis

Letter from Founding Director, Matthew Davis

We started the Cheuse Center because we believe that literature offers the opportunity to better understand our world: the different cultures and philosophies that exist across time and space; the political circumstances that impact people’s lives and art. The Center has been an attempt to take this opportunity that literature provides and allow it to shed light on all the beauty and pain of our common humanity.

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MFA Student Arpita Roy earns Bread Loaf fellowship

MFA Student Arpita Roy earns Bread Loaf fellowship

MFA poetry student Arpita Roy has been selected as the winner of the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Poetry for the 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. For this highly competitive award, she was chosen out of a pool of 2,500 applicants.

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Poetry Daily at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center

Poetry Daily at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center

With funds from ArtsFairfax, nonprofit Poetry Daily sends Mason MFA poetry students into the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center to teach poetry to incarcerated youths as part of the Poetry Alive! program. “This new program brings young poet-teachers directly into the lives of young people who want to find language for their own stories and who may want to see those stories and their connections with others in a new light as they move forward,” said Peter Streckfus, a co-director of Poetry Daily.

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