MISCELLANY – JANUARY 19, 2022

John Blair has been named the recipient of Reed Magazine‘s 2021 Edwin Markham Award for Poetry.

The latest issue of the Journal of Texas Music History, co-edited by Alan Schaefer and Dr. Jason Mellard of the Department of History and the Center for Texas Music History, appeared in December 2021. Free print copies are available in Brazos Hall. Read online here: https://www.txstate.edu/ctmh/publications/journal/vol21.html

Second-year MFA candidate Melissa Huckabay’s poem, “Pink Evening Primrose, or Buttercup As My Mom Called It,” is featured in issue 13 of Poetry South.

Sandra Sidi co-authored a report on unjust detentions in America with the SMU Dedman School of Law. It is available here:

https://www.smu.edu/-/media/Site/Law/Deason-Center/Publications/Public-Defense/Initial-Appearance-Campaign/Ending-Injustice-Solving-The-Initial-Appearance-Crisis-FINAL.pdf?la=en

MFA fiction candidate Hannah Smothers has published the personal essay, “How Much is a Dog’s Life Worth?” in Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-dog-life-value/

Rob Tally participated remotely in two round-table sessions, “Reading Poe Today” and “Marxism, Form, and Futurity,” at the MLA convention in Washington, DC. He also was a featured speaker at “The Eminescu–Poe Transatlantic Online Conference,” Bucharest, Romania, on January 17, 2022.