Online literary magazine Route Nine released a special alumni issue to celebrate the UMass Amherst MFA for Poets & Writers’s 50th Anniversary. Route Nine is edited by Rumpus Tumblr editor Molly McArdle.

In addition, the W. E. B. Du Bois Library inaugurated an MFA Special Collection featuring five decades of ephemera from program participants and The Massachusetts Review has released a special issue celebrating fifty years of the MFA for Poets & Writers.