Stadler Fellowship
Stadler Center for Poetry
Initiated in 1998, the Stadler Fellowship offers a recent MFA, MA, or PhD graduate in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing. The Stadler Fellowship is designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. The Stadler Fellow assists for twenty hours each week in the administration of the Stadler Center for Poetry and/or in the editing of West Branch, a nationally distinguished semiannual literary magazine. The Fellow also works as an instructor and staff member in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June. The Fellowship stipend is $20,000. In addition, the Fellow is provided a furnished apartment on campus, office space in the Stadler Center, and health insurance.
Stadler Fellowship is currently occupied. Please check back here for future application deadlines.
Stadler Fellow, 2009-10: Will Schutt
Will Schutt is a poet and translator from New York City. He earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Hollins University, where he was a teaching fellow and editorial assistant at The Hollins Critic. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Faultline, FIELD, Harvard Review and The Southern Review. In 2003, he co-founded Verso, a culture and arts magazine based in Siena, Italy, where he was a contributing editor and translator until 2007. He guest edited the “Focus” section of the summer 2008 issue of A Public Space, which featured a selection of his translations of contemporary Italian fiction. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
Schutt will read from his poetry on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.
Former Stadler Fellows
1998-99 Kathy Murphy
1999-00 Michael Carlin
2000-01 Michael Carlin
2001-02 Ron Mohring
2002-03 Ron Mohring
2003-04 Rebecca Warner
2004-05 Rebecca Warner
2005-06 Betsy Wheeler
2006-07 Betsy Wheeler
2007-08 Erinn Batykefer
2008-09 Erinn Batykefer
