MFA 50th Anniversary: Cara Blue Adams - November 17, 2022

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UA Poetry Center, UA Creative Writing Program

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Poetry Center
MFA 50th Anniversary: Cara Blue Adams

Cara Blue Adams, an alumna of the UA MFA in Creative Writing Program, reads a short story titled "Shoulder Season" from her collection You Never Get It Back (2021). This story takes place in Tucson and follows a protagonist who is in an optical sciences graduate program at UA, but decides to leave school and become a writer. This reading was originally given alongside Alberto Ríos and Aisha Sabatini Sloan to celebrate the MFA program's 50th anniversary.

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Introduction
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by Elizabeth Evans

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"Shoulder Season"
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Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Adams, Cara Blue. You Never Get It Back. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021, pp. 117-121.

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