MFA student D. R. Garrett’s story “Wild Horses” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Active Muse.
Josh Lopez’s story “The Incorrigible Hulk” appears in an issue of West Branch, which was guest edited by MFA graduate Tomás Q. Morín.
Susan Morrison’s book chapter “Waste” appears in The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Stephanie Foote.
Amanda Mixon’s piece, “‘Out long enough to be historic’: Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio,” was recently published in Southern Spaces.
Rob Tally’s article “Bathsheba’s Stomach; or, Poiesis and Criticism in Paul A. Bové’s Love’s Shadow” appears in the current issue of symploke. His chapter “A Postmodern Mappa Mundi: Cosmopolitanism, Heterotopia, and the World System” was published in Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism, edited by Didier Coste et al. (Routledge), and his “Worlding Spatiality Studies” appears in The Bloomsbury Handbook on World Theory, edited by Jeffrey Di Leo and Christian Moraru (Bloomsbury). Also, on Dec. 4, 2021, Rob remotely delivered the keynote speech, “Representing Space: Literary Cartography as Critique,” at the International Forum of Literary Cartography and Celebration of the Foundation of Research Center of Literary Cartography at Southwest University, in Chongqing, China; Rob has been named the Honorary Director of that Research Center.
Two poems by Steve Wilson, “O Bluedark Dream” and “Prayer Along the Road,” appear in Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose, out this month from New Rivers Press.
MARC graduate Lea Christine Colchado was awarded the Jeanette Morgan Endowment for Excellence in Research and Teaching of Rhetoric and Composition by the University of Houston’s English Department. The award is in recognition of Lea’s upcoming Conference on College Composition and Communication presentation on Anzaldúan modes of writing and Chicana epistemology in academia.
Miles Wilson’s fifth book and second novel, McKenzie Rampant: A Frolic for Oregon, will be published in 2022 by the University of Nevada Press.
The following poems by Vanessa Couto Johnson were recently published: “{march 14 2021} | daylight saving pi paa ærten” appears in Street Cake Experimental Writing Magazine; “*? where we’re going we don’t need *?” and “fix[ations/tures]” appear in Superstition Review; “The photoreconnaissance wants an autogiro” appears in Scrawl Place; and “Spring Lake” is out in Sublunary Review.
Note: In spring 2022, Miriam Williams will be on leave. Please email your Miscellany items to miscellany@txstate.edu or to Rob Tally.
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