Congratulations:
Two stories by William Jensen were nominated by a member of the Board of Contributing Editors for Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses: “A Quiet Place to Hide” appeared in North Dakota Quarterly and “Come Again Another Day” appeared in the anthology, Texas Weather.
Rob Tally participated in The Society for Critical Exchange’s Winter Theory Institute, held Feb 9-12 at the University of Houston-Victoria. The topic of the 2017 Institute was “Antitheory,” and Rob’s talk was titled “Anti-Antitheory”: http://societyforcriticalexchange.org/wintertheoryinstitute.aspx.
Stephen Harmon’s poem, “Dawn,” has been accepted by Volt.
MFA poetry student Ashton Kamburoff’s will present “Blue Class / Working Collar: An Examination of the Poetics of Phil Levine” at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment at Wayne State University in Detroit, taking place this June.
Natasha Tretheway has chosen Cyrus Cassell’s poem, “Elegy with a Gold Cradle,” for Best American Poetry 2017, which will be published by Scribners in September. In Spring 2018 the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (Southern Illinois University Press) will publish his sixth book, The Gospel According to Wild Indigo.
MATC alumni now hold the following positions in Texas State’s IT and University Marketing departments: Jennifer Small (User Service Consultant II, IT Assistance Center), Jenny Joy Van De Walle (Program Specialist – Technical Writer, IT Assistance Center), Jennifer Johnson (Coordinator, IT Projects – Technology Resources Administration), Jen LaGrange (Coordinator, IT Projects – IT Assistance Center), and Chase Rogers (Web Content Strategist – University Marketing).
Kate McClancy presented “‘It Doesn’t Have to Match’: Cold War Style and Masculinity in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” at the Southwest Popular Culture / American Culture Association conference in Albuquerque this month.
MATC alumnus Jael Perales has been hired as an Academic Editor for the American Journal Experts Division of Research Square, a for-benefit company that helps researchers around the world get their work effectively communicated and published.