Poem by Alumnus Appears in The New Yorker

"The Man Explains His Souvenirs," a poem by Charles Rafferty, MFA'90, appeared in the Jan. 17 edition of The New Yorker. Subscribers can read the poem online by going to http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2011/01/17/110117po_poem_rafferty.

Rafferty is the recipient of a 2009 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing and is the author of four full-length collections of poetry:The Man on the Tower, which won the Arkansas Poetry Award (University of Arkansas Press, 1995); Where the Glories of April Lead (Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001), During the Beauty Shortage (M2 Press, 2005); and A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006). He has placed poems in hundreds of journals among them The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Massachusetts Review, DoubleTake, Poetry East and Connecticut Review. His work has also appeared in a number of anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation, Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. He currently teaches at Albertus Magnus College and in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. By day, he works as an editor for a technology consulting firm. He lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters.