Miscellany – March 24, 2016

Congratulations:

The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses, edited by Cecily Parks, was published by Everyman’s Library in March.

 

Kitty Ledbetter organized a panel and presented her paper entitled “Technology Revolutionizes the History of Women’s Needlework” at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference, held in Asheville, NC on March 12.

 

Miles Wilson’s story “Tough” (The Georgia Review, Spring 2015) is one of three finalists for awards from Western Writers of America and the Texas Institute of Letters.  “Bang,’ a piece of creative nonfiction, is forthcoming in the first volume of the second hundred years of Southwest Review.  His poems “You, Theordore Roethke” and “Keeping Track” will appear in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume  VIII: Texas.  Last fall he was a featured reader at the South Dakota Festival of Books where he presented with Pete Dexter, winner of the National Book Award for Paris Trout.

 

Michael Noll has accepted a position as Program Director for the Writers’ League of Texas. The Austin-based nonprofit offers one-day writing classes, a week-long writing retreat, and the annual Agents & Editors Conference every June.

 

Rob Tally presented “Literary Cartography, Marxism, and Form” at the American Comparative Literature Association’s annual meeting, held in Cambridge, MA.

 

Mark Busby’s essay, “The Polychotomous Southwest,” appears in Critical Insights: Southwestern Literature, edited by Will Brannon (Hackensack, NJ:  Salem/Grey House Publishing, 2016): 2-19.  At the March Conference of College Teachers of English in San Antonio, Mark presented “Moving Targets:  Geography in Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”; and as a member of the CCTE Advisory Council, he chaired three Rhetoric sessions.

 

Logan Fry’s two poems, “Gershwin’s Wash Room” and “Essential Isles,” will appear in New American Writing, and the poems “Gesticulation Overture” and “The Master and Margarita” will be in Volt. Both issues are slated for release this spring.

 

In March, Graeme Wend-Walker presented “Gormenghast and Brakebills: Wonderment in Collapse” at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando, Florida.