Gerry Delahunty published Ideology and the Language of Human Rights: Language, Text, and Ideology in Amnesty International Appeal Letters in July with Cambridge University Press. An e-copy is available through Morgan Library.

Jeff Kaplan of San Diego State University praised the book as: “A tour de force. A discourse analysis of Amnesty International’s communications to supporters, which is both deep and broad. Delahunty adduces evidence from an impressive range of theoretical perspectives within linguistics, and, from outside linguistics, offers a look at what counts as ideology. Invaluable to discourse analysts of whatever stripe.”

Erika Szymanski co-edited a special issue of East Asian Science and Technology Studies, “Building Responsible Research and Innovation Across Cultures and Contexts: Perspectives from the UK and Japan,” with colleagues in Japan and the UK. The issue, years in the making, is finally out and includes illustrations of modes of responsible research as places to visit at an island theme park.

Andrew Altschul published the short story “Halle Berry” in the 2026 issue of StoryQuarterly. The story is available online here. In other news, Spain won the World Cup, for which he takes partial credit.

Sarah Perry was named a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in General Nonfiction for Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover.

Todd Ruecker, alongside co-editor Sheila Carter-Tod, won the 2026 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators for WPAing in a Pandemic and Beyond: Revision, Innovation, and Advocacy, published by Utah State University Press.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher has a new book forthcoming next year: Colcha of Light, a memoir in verse in the Voice in the American West series at Texas Tech University Press. His piece “Coyote Blotter” will appear in September in Prairie Schooner’s Special Folio on Latinx Flash Memoir, along with three documentary shorts, “Corrections,” “Wings,” and “Breathe,” in Slag Glass City.

Sasha Steensen’s essay collection, THE DISOBEDIENT READER, was accepted for publication by Essay Press. She also recently published poems in Crawfish Magazine and The Sitting Room Anthology.

slp published the poem “John Berryman threw himself off this bridge (I think) (aria)” in Denverse magazine and three of their favorite poems in Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics’ issue on the untranslatable.

Navya Sharma (MFA ’26) published the short story “Sinkholes” in Another Chicago Magazine in July.

Sarah Mullens (MFA ’26) was awarded the Hughes Fellowship at Southern Methodist University and began the fellowship this month.

Dan Beachy-Quick is serving as the Trias Poet-in-Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where he is teaching an advanced poetry class on the shores of Seneca Lake. He will return full-time to CSU in the spring term.

Devon Fulford’s fifth poetry collection, you can still drown in the shallows, will be released by Roadside Press on September 13, 2026.

Poet Christy Prahl (With Her Hair on Fire, Catalog of Labors) offered early praise: “From the epigraph of Devon Fulford’s gripping new collection, we know we’re in a place of wreckage. There’s an insistence to it, one that splits us open even as it’s stitching us up. Boldly irreverent and unabashedly potty-mouthed, these poems challenge us to look closely at the broken world. ‘Look at it,’ demands each speaker, like a dare. Blink and the poem wins. Sure, you can drown in the shallows, but there is nothing shallow here. Just ants in the honey, sin, and the rapture of the deep.”

Samuel Ellington’s poem “Discricity” appeared in A Poet’s Directory of Wild Things, a new anthology by Denver’s own South Broadway Press.

Nancy Wright’s poem “Why She Keeps Moving From City to City” was published in Issue 114 (Summer 2026) of Painted Bride Quarterly (and includes an audio recording!).

John Kneisley has three poems in the Spring/Summer issue of Seneca Review (“Patina (through grief),” “Snow,” and “out of ruins i hear”), the first of which was a runner-up for their Broadside Poetry Prize.

Tobi Jacobi participated in the immersive Bard Prison Initiative Summer Residency as part of the 2026 cohort for two weeks in July.

Naitnaphit Limlamai and two Fulbright colleagues (Kristin Dawley, Fulbright Norway & David Gerwin, CUNY Queens College) have an upcoming article, “The Difficulty—and Importance—of Talking About Difference,” in Communicare, the journal for the Norwegian National Center on English and Other Languages in Education. The work is based on their teaching in Norway in the 2025-2026 school year.

Naitnaphit Limlamai and two colleagues (Sara Cooper, Murray State University & Jessica Rivera-Mueller, Utah State University) have submitted a revise and resubmit to English Education. The manuscript is a co/autoethnography on how our lived experiences and contexts shape our understandings and enactments of justice-oriented teaching. This marks two years that they have been working on this article and their third journal attempt! Wish them luck!

Naitnaphit Limlamai has been elected Vice President for the Colorado Association of Teachers of English (formerly Colorado Language Arts Society), our NCTE state affiliate and an Executive Committee member for ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators).

Also, Naitnaphit Limlamai and her family got a new puppy! Ripp! Named after Richard Parker, the tiger in Life of Pi. Ripp and older sister Phoebe are having a blast. Schmutz the cat disagrees. Message her for pictures!

Last but not least, a special birth announcement!

Kiley Dickerson and her family welcomed Audrey Eileen on July 14 at 2:08 p.m. She was born at 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 20.5 inches long. All are well and healthy!