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Rick Reid publishes article in Crossings and exhibits "The Making of Americans" at FiveMyles
Rick Reid has published an article concerning contemporary poetry and theories of embodiment, "Frequency: Vito Acconci's Frames of the Future Anterior," in the winter issue of Binghamton University's critical journal Crossings and has exhibited a visual work of poetry "The Making of Americans" at FiveMyles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Click on link for more info.
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013
Catherine Keohane presents conference papers at MLA, NEASECS, and The Burney Society
Catherine Keohane presented her paper "Telling Stories: Narrative Concentration and the Family-State Analogy in Defoe and Swift" at the MLA Conference in Boston, MA, January 2013 as well as "Seeing Oneself in(stead of) the Poor: Charity and Imaginative Substitution" at the NEASECS in Middletown, CT, October 2012 and "Creative Accounting: Charity, Consumption, and Debt in _Camilla_" at The Burney Society in New York, NY, October 2012.
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013
John Hodges wins Tartt First Fiction Award and publishes photography collection, new stories and a review in American Book Review
John Hodges has won the Tartt First Fiction Award for his short story collection The Love Box that will be published by Livingston Press. John also has new fiction out in NYU's graduate journal, Washington Square, and also in Devil's Lake and has a limited edition photography book, Girl Crazy, newly released from Hamburger Eyes. John will be reading at NYU on April 6th at 7pm at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House and has also just completed a book review for American Book Review. Click link for more info.
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013
Ann Evans publishes "Driving to Nyanga" and is a RAUL Fellow
Ann Evans is publishing her short story "Driving to Nyanga" this summer in the debut online issue of Under the Sun. She is also a Fellow in RAUL's study group in contemplative pedagogy that will be sharing their experiences of using mediation and other contemplative techniques in the classroom with an eye toward curriculum additions throughout the university.
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013
Claudia Cortese poetry publications and prizes
Claudia has recently published her poems "Hurricane Irene Fingers My Hair" in The Kenyon Review, "Epithalamium" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) in Devil's Lake, and two poems - "Witch's Love Song" and "If Doctors Say You'll Die Soon, Go to the Carnival" - in Third Coast. Also, her first full-length poetry manuscript - Cut a Hole and Pull You Through - has been named a semi-finalist for both University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollak Prize and for Persea Book's Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Click on the headline to read Claudia's poems.
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Posted: Monday February 18, 2013
Jill Rosenberg publishes short story in North American Review
Jill Rosenberg has published her short story "Now We're Photogenic" in the Summer 2012 issue (just released this December) of The North American Review. Click on the link to get a copy through The North American Review's Facebook page.
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Posted: Friday January 4, 2013
Henry Margenau publishes short story in Prick of the Spindle
Henry Margenau has published his short story entitled "Uncle Julie's Sex Ray" in Prick of the Spindle. Click on link to read Henry's story.
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Posted: Friday January 4, 2013
Maria Giura reads "After Mass" at IASA Conference
Maria Giura read "After Mass," a chapter from her memoir, for the Italian American Studies Association Conference at Hofstra University.
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Posted: Saturday December 15, 2012
Tara Gellene interviewed in the Chronicle of Higher Education
An interview with First-Year Writing Professor Tara Gellene appears in the Chronicle of Higher Education regarding her use of Wikitopia as a pedagogical tool for online collaborative learning, production and exchange. The article is entitled "With 'Social Reading' Books Become Places to Meet" and can be read by clicking link.
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Posted: Thursday November 29, 2012
Sarah Ghoshal publishes new poems, edits short story collection, presents at conference and will be Guest Editor for Summer 2013 issue of OVS Magazine
Sarah has published the poem "Emptier" in the Big River Poetry Review, "How to Kill the President" in the Fat City Review, and "He Told Me" in the Winter 2013 issue of OVS Magazine for which she will be the guest editor of the Summer 2013 issue. Sarah has also just edited a collection of short stories entitled A Diverse Gathering by Vincent Macraven and presented a paper "Consistency in the Hybrid Writing Classroom" at the Student Success in Writing Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Click on the link to read the poems.
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Posted: Monday October 22, 2012