Congratulations:
In September, Mark Busby presented “Satireshot/Scattershot: Targets in Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” at the Western Literature Association conference in Big Sky, MT. Mark read poetry at the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers conference, held in San Antonio in early October.
“Éxito (Success),” written by Octavio Pimentel and Nancy Wilson, appears in Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy: https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Rhetoric-Composition-Studies-Keywords/dp/1137527234.
Recent MARC graduate Edward Santos Garza has accepted a position as a Rhetoric Assessment Affiliate for the University of Texas at Austin’s OnRamps program, which brings rigorous, dual-enrollment writing courses to thousands of students in underprivileged high schools across the state. In addition, Edward is in his first semester as an adjunct English professor at St. Edward’s University, where fellow MARC graduate Clare Murray is a new faculty member, as well.
Two poems by MFA poetry student Meg Griffitts appear in the latest issue of Luna Luna Magazine: http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-by-meg-e-griffitts.
The Houston Public Poetry recently invited MFA poetry graduate and current lecturer Autumn Hayes to perform her poems with alt-country band Charlie and the Regrets at the inaugural “PM Show: Poets and Musicians at Night.” The show will take place on Saturday, October 22 at Rudyard’s Pub in Houston and is the first in a series of intentional collaborations between poets and musicians: http://www.publicpoetry.net/2016/10/the-pm-show/. Autumn is one of three poets specifically selected by the Public Poetry board; poets who wish to participate in future performances must audition. Four of Autumn’s poems – “No. 1: Color,” “No. 2: Textures,” “No. 3: Lengths,” and “What to Do with Silence?” – have been accepted for publication in African American Review.
Twister Marquiss, Director of Texas State University’s Common Reading Program and a faculty member in the English Department and Honors College, was presented with a “Foundations of Excellence” award during the Texas State Student Foundation’s annual dinner ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 12. He was one of ten award recipients, and one of only three recipients from the university’s faculty. The award was presented by Honors student Haley Tucker. The Foundations of Excellence award is the Student Foundation’s annual recognition event that provides Student Foundation members with the opportunity to honor ten faculty and staff members who have made an extraordinary impact on the lives of Student Foundation members and the Texas State University community as a whole.
Eric Leake’s article “The Dinner Table Debate and the Uses of Hospitality” has been published in the latest issue of Present Tense: http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/the-dinner-table-debate-and-the-uses-of-hospitality/