Elvin Holt was honored this week at Texas State’s Naming Streets Ceremony.  Elvin Holt Drive is on Texas State’s Round Rock Campus. The street commemorates Dr. Elvin Holt, the first Black professor in the Department of English, for his work in multicultural curriculum development.

Tom Grimes’s play New World will be produced, in a Spanish translation, and open in Madrid in early 2022.

MFA graduate Tomás Q. Morín’s newest collection Machete was published this week.

Kate McClancy’s chapter, “Fighting a Lonely War: Frank Castle and the Domestication of Vietnam,” appears in Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Essays on the Punisher in Print and on Screen from McFarland.

Cecily Parks’s poem “December” appears in the latest The Best American Poetry, edited by Tracy K. Smith.

Sandra Sidi’s essay “The Bridge” was chosen as Narrative Magazine’s Top Five Stories of the Week for 2020-2021.

MFA graduate Meg E. Griffitts’ collection Hallucinating a Homestead was recently published by Two Sylvias Press.

MFA graduate Dallas Raquel Klein’s poems “Gathering” and “night swim after matrimony” appear in Sandy River Review.