Tag: News of Note

  • News of Note May 2018

    News of Note May 2018

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    Andrew Altschul’s essay, “Lima,” about the high-end restaurant scene in Peru’s capital, appears in the May issue of Hemispheres and Rhapsody, the United Airlines in-flight magazines. If you’re flying United in May, you’ll find it in your seat-back pocket. For the earthbound, you can read the story here. Genesea Carter attended…

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  • News of Note April 2018

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    Dan Beachy-Quick has a short essay up at The Brooklyn Rail, part of a critic’s section curated by Ann Lauterbach, on Why Poetry Now: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/criticspage/Crisis-of-the-Poetic-Now EJ Levy’s hybrid essay, “Natural World,” which appeared in Passages North, has been awarded a Pushcart Prize; it will appear in the 2019 Pushcart PPXLIII…

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  • News of Note for March 2018

    News of Note for March 2018

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    Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry Series: We Remain Traditional, by Arizona poet Sylvia Chan (February…

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  • News of Note for February 2018

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    We had 30 people at our inaugural Composition Program Meta Monday, “Beyond the Rhetorical Situation,” facilitated by Dr. Doug Cloud. A hearty thank you to Doug and everyone who came! Joanna Doxey has a few poems in the latest issue of Ghost Proposal, here: http://ghostproposal.com/ . She was recently invited…

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  • News of Note January 2018

    News of Note January 2018

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    There is a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book up at Michigan Quarterly Review: http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2017/12/required-reading-dan-beachy-quicks-of-silence-and-song/ and he has three poems just published at BOMB: https://bombmagazine.org/authors/dan-beachy-quick Leslee Becker won 1st prize in the Broad River Review Fiction Contest for her story, “Such Friends.” Doug Cloud’s article, “Toward a Richer Rhetoric of Agency:…

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  • News of Note Week of December 4

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    Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book Of Silence & Song is officially published on December 12. It can be found here: https://milkweed.org/book/of-silence-and-song On Friday 12/8, Doug Cloud held a workshop to the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) Leadership Fellows titled “Communicating ‘Controversial’ Science with ‘Skeptical’ Audiences: Some Tools for Scientists.” Harrison…

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  • News of Note Week of October 30

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    Camille Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers has made three exciting lists this fall, one of which was BookRiot’s 20 Great Essay Collections from 2017. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s Presentimiento has been selected by Kirkus Reviews as among “The Best Indie Books of 2017.” https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harrison-candelaria-fletcher/presentimiento/ He also had a new lyric essay,…

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  • News of Note Week of October 23

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    An essay of Dan Beachy-Quick’s, “Even,” about Marcel Duchamp and the underworld, won the 2017 Zone 3 price in nonfiction. On October 20th, Kelly Bradbury served on the Editorial Roundtable at the Conference on Community Writing in Boulder. She also attended the TYCA-SW Conference in Loveland last week. Matthew Cooperman has…

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  • News of Note Week of October 16

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    Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award in Short Stories. Doug Cloud’s co-authored essay, “How People Make Sense of Trump and Why It Matters for Racial Justice” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. It should be out in November or…

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  • News of Note October 9

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    There’s an essay titled “Atlantis” from Dan Beachy- Quick’s forthcoming book, Of Silence and Song, just published at The New Orleans Review: http://www.neworleansreview.org/atlantis/. Genesea Carter was a panelist on the panel “Composition, Curiosity & Technical-Major Students” at the Two-Year College English Association’s Midwest conference this past week in St. Paul, Minnesota.…

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