Congratulations:
MFA student Ashton Kamburoff was selected for a space in the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver, Colorado by Ada Limón. Limón will lead the week-long workshop from June 12th-16th. Ashton also was named the 2017-18 Clark House Writer-In-Residence by the MFA faculty.
Mark Busby attended the Conference of College Teachers Association Conference, held at Tarrant County Community College from March 3-5, serving as a CCTE Council member as well as presenting “The Slave Narrative from Frederick Douglass to William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner to Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation” at the Texas College English Association affiliated meeting.
MFA fiction student Graham Oliver interviewed recent Whiting Award-winner Tony Tulathimutte for Electric Literature. They talked about the complex relationship between literature and video games: https://electricliterature.com/the-field-of-dreams-approach-on-writing-about-video-games-5c58d4ddf9f4.
Cecily Parks was named Outstanding English Professor of the Year by students in Texas State’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.
Rob Tally’s article “The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. Conservatism” appears in b2o: An Online Journal (the peer-reviewed online journal of the boundary 2 editorial collective): http://www.boundary2.org/2017/03/robert-t-tally-jr-the-southern-phoenix-triumphant-richard-weaver-or-the-origins-of-contemporary-u-s-conservatism/.
MFA poetry graduate Jonathan Hobratsch conducted an interview with Cyrus Cassells for the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2017-poetry-month-an-interview-with-cyrus-cassells_us_58de8c39e4b03c2b30f6a5db.
Steve Wilson has new poems in the latest issues of Texas Observer, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review and Noon: Journal of the Short Poem.
Tomás Q. Morín’s new collection of poetry Patient Zero was released on April 11th by Copper Canyon Press. The libretto he translated, Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, will have its Austin premiere at the Paramount Theater as part of the Fusebox Festival on April 14th and 15th. More details can be found here: https://www.fuseboxfestival.com/dates/pancho-villa-from-a-safe-distance.
MARC graduate Sonia Arellano earned her PhD from the University of Arizona this semester.