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Ben Pfeiffer

Ben Pfeiffer
Ben Pfeiffer
Kansas City, KS
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 09/01/2009
Last update : 08/19/2009
photo credit: Sarah Redinger

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About Me

  • I grew up in Southeast Kansas in the shadow of Big Brutus, the world's second-largest coal steamshovel.

     My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Moon City Review, 417 Magazine, and GO Magazine. I am also the librettist for an opera, Andrew Paul Jackson's The Memory of Liars: An Evening with Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, which premieres at the Boston Conservatory on April 28th, 2009.

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  • The Lexicon of the Sword in MCR 2009

    August 7, 2009

    • My short story, "The Lexicon of the Sword," will appear in the 2009 Moon City Review. MCR 2009 also includes poetry and fiction by Burton Raffel; poetry by Ted Kooser, Miller Williams, Marcus Cafagña, and Michael Burns; fiction (and an interview) by Kevin Brockmeier; short fiction by John Dufresne and Michael Cyzniejewski; and criticism by Billy Clem. A special section, “Archival ...
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  • From Pocket Review, AWP in 2010

    August 7, 2009

    • DENVER, CO. — D. Gilson and Ben Pfeiffer, editors at The Pocket Review, will be participating in the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in a panel with Brian Shawver, Jane Hoogestraat, and Linda Moser. The panel discussion focuses on the standardization of creative writing curriculums. From the proposal by Dr. Moser:Creative Conformity: Standardizing Fiction ...
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  • The Premiere of Grigori Efimovich

    April 9, 2009

    • Andrew Paul Jackson's Grigori Efimovich: The Memory of Liars premieres this month at the Boston Conservatory in Massachusetts. The one-act opera, on which I served as librettist, details the shaky connections between Felix Yusupov, a bumbling traitor to Russia's last Tsar, and his co-conspirators in the death of Rasputin. The monk from Siberia, Grigori Efimovich, has been called a sexual deviant, ...
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  • John Updike in The Moon City Review

    March 19, 2009

    • Although it has nothing to do with me, I learned yesterday that my short story "The Lexicon of the Sword," which will appear in The Moon City Review, will be placed in the same volume as (previously) unpublished letters and manuscript fragments from literary master John Updike.John Updike attended Harvard with a man named Robert Wallace, another writer and poet, from Springfield, ...
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