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Frederick Barthelme's book Waveland will be published by Doubleday in January 2009.
Dr. Linda Pierce is the recipient of the Excellence in Service Award for the
College of Arts and Letters. Dr. Pierce was selected by the College Awards
Committee to represent Arts and Letters in the competition for the University
Excellence in Service Award last spring.
Jameela Lares has accepted the role of treasurer of the Milton Society of America, a multi-year post charged not only with overseeing the society's fund but also its yearly dinner at MLA and its various awards. Her term began January 2008.
Dr. Pierce received an award for Outstanding Community Service from the
Mississippi Retired Teachers Association, 2007. The award recognizes her work
organizing the English Department's Community Literacy Outreach Initiative
(CLOI), and especially the Mobile-Bouie Neighborhood Association Adult Book
Club.
The English Department's Community Literacy Outreach Initiative (CLOI),
coordinated by Dr. Linda Pierce, secured a $5000 Back-to-School grant
from Dollar General's Community Initiatives Department. The grant is funding the
development of the African American children's book collection in the Hawkins
Elementary School library. Southern Miss English major, alumnus Regina Milner, co-wrote
the grant as part of a directed special problems assignment supervised by Dr.
Pierce in Spring 2007.
Philip Kolin's article "Redefining the Way Theatre is Created and Performed: The Radical Inclusion of Suzan-Lori Parks's 365 Plays/365 Days" is scheduled to be published in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Philip Kolin will have an essay on Adrienne Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement published in Contemporary African American Women Playwrights to be released by Routledge in November 2007.
Frederick Barthelme's story “The Red Crayola" appeared in Oxford American, October 2007.
Angela Ball's book Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, awarded by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, was released.
Dr. Linda Pierce was awarded the University of Southern Mississippi 2007
Junior Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, presented by the Faculty Senate and
the Office of the President.
Angela Ball's poem “Portrait Sketch” appeared in the anthology Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression (Seattle: Eastern Washington Press, 2007).
Steven Barthelme's story "Jealous You, Jealous Me" appeared in Esquire Online, 2007.
Angela Ball's poem “Two Poets, One Middle Name” is forthcoming in Barrow Street.
Eric L. Tribunella's article "Institutionalizing _The Outsiders_: YA Literature, Social Class, and the
American Faith in Education" appeared in Children’s Literature in Education 38.2 (2007): pgs. 87-101.
Frederick Barthelme's essay “Something Else" appeared in Playboy Magazine, May 2007.
Angela Ball's poem “Nude Woman in the Movement of her Veils” appeared in Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall 2007.
Steven Barthelme's essay "Not As I Recall" appeared in Connecticut Review XXVII, 2, Fall 2006.
Angela Ball's poems “Temp" and “Planet of Distraction” appeared in Eclipse, volume eighteen, Fall 2007.
The second edition of Making Your First Year a Success: A Secondary Teacher's Survival Guide by J. Elaine White and Robert L. Wyatt has been released from Corwin Press.
Angela Ball's poem “Big Colt” appeared in Jubilat thirteen, Fall, 2007.
The Spring 2007 issue of the African American Review carried Philip Kolin's study of the reception of Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro, one of the most important plays of 20th century theatre, through his original interview with director and actor Billie Allen-- "Revisting Funnyhouse."
Dr. Linda Pierce was awarded the 2007 Service-Learning Faculty Innovation
Award, for Extensive Contributions to Service-Learning Teaching, Publication,
and Practice, presented by the Office of Community Service-Learning.
Angela Ball's poem “Goodnight, Mr. Know-it-All” appeared in Hollins Critic, June, 2007.
Christianity and literature Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition published Philip Kolin's hermeneutical study entitled"'Exchange me for a Goat': Iago's Ewes and Rams, Othello's Goats and Monkeys, and Matthew 25: 31-45."
Graduate Students
William Wright's poem "Ferns" is forthcoming in the Southern Poetry Review.
Alan Rossi's story "Marathon, Ohio" is forthcoming in Zone 3 Spring 2008 vol. 23.
William Wright's poem "Hell" is forthcoming in the Indiana Review.
Gary Wilkens' poem "Lui, South Sudan" will appear in The Prague Revue, issue #8, 2008.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's essay "A Stillness We Can't Keep" is forthcoming in the Florida Review.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Gestalt" will appear in VOX, winter 2008.
Dan Morri's paper "Solitude on the Edge of Oblivion: The Bar in the Poetry of Richard Hugo" has been selected for the Intermountain Graduate Conference at Utah State University, April 4, 2008.
William Wright presented a paper at the Intermountain Graduate Conference at Utah State University called "Wordsworth's Diversions and the Nature of Maturation" on April 4, 2008.
Erin Elizabeth Smith presented "Different Like Me : Confession and Sexuality in Stone Butch Blues and Bastard Out of Carolina" at LSU's Women and Gender Studies Conference on March 7, 2008.
William Wright and Jesse Graves's book The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume II: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry is forthcoming 2008.
Gary Charles Wilkens' poem "NY State Thruway" is forthcoming in Yellow Medicine Review and in the anthology I WAS INDIAN, forthcoming from Curbstone, 2008.
William Wright was invited to read at the Oswald Distinguished Writers Series at the U of South Carolina Aiken on March 5, 2008.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poem "February" is forthcoming in Cider Press Review.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Plymouth Circle" is forthcoming in The South Carolina Review.
William Wright and Jesse Graves's book The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume II: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry is forthcoming in 2008.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's book The Fear of Being Found was released from Three Candles Press on February 15, 2008.
William Wright was invited to the University of Virginia to give a paper called "'A Silence is Living': Georg Trakl and the Barthesian Ideal" on February 8, 2008
Lynn Watson presented her short story "Kimball" at Mississippi College's Mississippi Philological Association Conference in January 2008.
Jeff Pusch presented his paper "Noble Villains and Counterfeit Rogues: Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter" at the Mississippi Philological Association Conference.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poems “Learning Russian" and "Everything Here is Real and Nothing" appeared in the January 2007 issue of Journal of Truth and Consequence.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Accident" will appear in RiverSedge, vol. 21:1.
T.A. Noonan's second chapbook, Darjeeling, is now available from Ahadada Books. You can read the release information and download the PDF here.
Miranda Merklein's poems "Paint Thinner," "On Moving On," and "A Gray Reunion" appeared in Offcourse, No. 33, January 2008.
William Wright's reviews of Hunting Men by Dave Smith and "A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence" are forthcoming from Texas Review.
Erin Elizabeth Smith was invited to be a member of the publication panel at the Deep South Festival of Writers sponsored by the University of Louisiana – Lafayette.
William Wright's poem “Blue Pear and Sleep Paralysis” is forthcoming in the Colorado Review.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Luneberry Grove" appeared in Touchstone, 2007-08.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poems “Aromatics" and “How to Fall in Love" appeared in the Fall issue of Pacific Review.
Lynn Watson presented her short story "Kimball" at Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College in Georgia.
William Wright's review "Seeing Where It Goes: Review of Dan Morris's 'Following the Day.'" is forthcoming from Redactions: Poetry and Poetics.
T.A. Noonan's poem "No Zoning" was publilshed in the anthology Growling Softly (Blood Pudding Press, 2007).
William Wright's poems “Trumpet Creeper Variations II,” “Trumpet Creeper Variations IV,” “Bluebird,” and “Ghost Water” were published in Grist: A Journal for Writers.
William Wright presented his paper “Georg Trakl’s Schweigen: ‘Silence’ as Key to the Narrative Structure” at M/MLA Cleveland, Ohio. November 8-11, 2007.
Travis Kurowski presenting "Redlining Research Assistants: The Role of Graduate Students at Scholarly Journals" at an MLA panel last winter.
William Wright and Stephen Gardner's book The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume I: South Carolina (Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2007) has been released.
Travis Kurowski's essay "Basquiat and Six Uses of Space" appeared in Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2007.
Lynn Watson's story "A River So Long" appeared in September's 971 Menu.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poems "Love Poem” and “Pansies (or What Love Does to the Body),” appeared in the winter issue of Salamander.
T.A. Noonan's poem "Darjeeling 1: Service" appeared in Harpur Palate 7.1 (2007).
William Wright was invited to the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to teach a master class on poetry and poetics, October 18, 2007.
Gary Charles Wilkens' poem "Naked Pictures" appears in the October 2007 issue of The Chimaera.
Alan Rossi's story "Blacktail" appeared in The Fourth River Autumn 2007 issue 4.
William Wright's poem "Prescribed Fire” appeared in New Orleans Review 32.3 (2007).
Ken Foster contributed a foreword to a forthcoming book of photos by Cami Johnson, to be published by Stewart Tabori and Chang.
Erin Elizabeth Smith received an Honorable Mention from New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, Finishing Line Press, 2007.
Gary Charles Wilkens' book The Red Light Was My Mind was published by The Texas Review Press in July 2007.
William Wright's poem "Peach Trees, Suffused with Pesticides” appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal 57.5 (2007)
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poems “Love Song for Leaving" and “On Leaving the Heartland,” appeared in Juked 2007.
William Wright presented his paper “Southern Instress: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetic Inheritance of James Dickey” at the University of Mississippi's conference "Southern Writers, Southern Writing."
Gary Charles Wilkens' review of Brain Turner's Here, Bullet appeared on the website of Rattle, summer 2007.
Miranda Merklein's poems "Gusty Winds," "Thunderhead" and "Drought" appeared in Writers Post Journal July 2007.
T.A. Noonan read with the Pussipo Experimental Women's Poetry Collective at AWP Atlanta. A podcast of the reading is available here.
Alan Rossi's story "Time in Texas" appeared in The Journal Spring/Summer 2007 vol 31.1.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poem "Hugo," appeared in The Pinch, Spring 2007.
T.A. Noonan presented her paper, "Cyborg Dreams, Cyborg Nightmares: The Circuits of Integrated Women in Tiptree's 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In' & Gibson's Idoru" at International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA).
Miranda Merklein's poem "The Sound" appeared in Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. 5.
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poem “Surviving a Biblical Flood," appeared in Cimarron Review, Spring 2007.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Two Birds Falling From Lime Twigs" appeared in Permafrost Vol. 29.
Erin Elizabeth Smith won the 2007 CRT Graduate Essay Contest.
Lynn Watson's story "Days Uncounted" appeared in Word Riot, January 2007.
T.A. Noonan's poem "What it touches" appeared in rout/e 5 (2007).
Jared Hegwood won the Joan Johnson Award for Fiction.
Allison Riddles won the Joan Johnson Award for Poetry.
Erin Elizabeth Smith was invited to read at the Natural Bridge launch in St. Louis, MO.
T.A. Noonan's poems "Darjeeling 10: Tannins," "Darjeeling 11: Black," "Darjeeling 12: Green," "Darjeeling 13: White," and "Feverroot & Candle" appeared in Little Red Leaves 2 (2007)
Erin Elizabeth Smith was a finalist in the 2007 Cider Press Review Book Award.
T.A. Noonan's poems "Multiple Choice," "Sundog / Zodiac of a Fingernail," and "Predictable Contemplations of the Body as Planet as Body" appeared in Word For/Word 12 (2007).
T.A. Noonan's poem "spellwork" appeared in elimae 12.8 (2007).
Ken Foster's essay collection, Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found (Lyons Press, 2007) received a Bronze Medal for Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards. The collection will soon be translated into Turkish.
Miranda Merklein's poems "I do not fear," "A lost sea photograph," and "thinking of the sandwich" appeared in Kokako (New Zealand).
Erin Elizabeth Smith's poems "Divorce" and "The Middle Ground," appeared in RHINO 2007.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Woman, If We All Feel As Ugly, Who Are The Most Beautiful?" appeared in Earthships Anthology: A New Mecca Poetry Collection.
Ken Foster's story "Crossing the Threshold" appeared in Meena, Volume 3, 2007.
Miranda Merklein's poems "Sculptor," "Pier At Goleta," and "My Boots Consume The Dust" appeared in Vision Magazine 2007.
Miranda Merklein's poem "Drought" appeared in The Binnacle 2007.
Ken Foster's story "Feral Children" appeared in Fence, Winter/Spring 2007.
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