This reading will feature three recent graduates of Mason's MFA program. Nicole Foreman Tong is a poet whose writing has appeared in the American Book Review. Her poems "Address for My Sister," "Pentimento," and "Thoughts Before Self-Portrait, 1981" just won a Dorothy Rosenberg award for Lyric Poetry. Mike Scalise's essays have appeared in Ninth Letter and Post Road, among others. He recently edited _The Way We See It_, a collection of D.C. student writing published by the Capitol Letters Writing Center. Scalise, the recipient of a work-study scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, was recently named the Fall 2009 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. Kevin Stoy is a poet whose work has appeared in the Boxcar Poetry Review and 42opus, among others. His work is forthcoming this fall in Phoebe. Please join these three local writers as they read from their work.