John Blair’s poem “The Box” has been selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander for the 2022 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.
Nancy Wilson has been appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Online Educational Resources (OER) Playbook project. The Playbook is intended as a guide which offers the steps needed to implement the change management inherent in an institutional shift to OER. The playbook will be grounded in the experiences of Texas institutions, and to that end, participants will have a strong role in its authorship.
MFA alumna C. Prudence Arceneaux’s poem “Menopause” was the April 29, 2022, Poem-a-Day selection of the Academy of American Poets. Read it – and hear her read it – here: https://poets.org/poem/menopause
Rob Tally has been named to the editorial board of The Journal of Modern Literature: https://journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2022/04/welcome-new-jml-co-editors.html
MFA fiction student Sabah Carrim presented a talk and gave a reading at the inaugural meeting of Sangam and Agora: A Forum of Poets, Philosophers, Scholars, and Autodidacts on April 23, 2022. Also, Sabah’s poem “Café Lux” appears in the April 2022 issue of Pepper Coast Lit, and it can be read here: https://peppercoastlit.weebly.com/sabah-carrim-cafeacute-lux.html
On April 19, 2022, Cyrus Cassells’s “Guitarrero!” was the featured work for Poem-a-Day, a project of the Academy of American Poets. You can read the poem – and hear Cyrus read it – here: https://poets.org/poem/guitarrero . Also, Cyrus’s latest book The World That the Shooter Left Us is reviewed at The Good Men Project: https://goodmenproject.com/uncategorized/when-the-world-cant-save-us-kpkn/
Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton’s poem “Orb-weaver” will be published in the May 2022 issue of Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature and Arts Magazine, which is based in San Antonio.
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