NEWS
AND VIEWS 
Jenny Chi
Page backgrounds for this issue of Agora were supplied by Jenny Chi of the Art Department, whose painting Art and Music II lurks quietly beneath all our text. Professor Chi, whose Italian Landscape is the cover painting for the September issue, teaches courses in painting and drawing at Eastern.—JDK
Angela Vietto
I don't have any real news this semester, but one of my many alter-egos has managed, at long last, to complete training as an astrologist (specializing in horoscopes for academia). For a preview of what 2004 holds for you professionally, visit Academic Horoscopes for 2004.
Dan Tessitore
I had poems in the November/December issue of The American Poetry Review. I am also a contributing poetry editor for the winter issue of Perihelion.Donelle Ruwe
1.
I presented a paper on the geographical children's poetry of Adelaide
O'Keeffe, an early nineteenth-century Irish author. Her father was the
playwright John O'Keeffe, and the poetry my paper analyzed used the opportunity
of teaching children about different countries of the world to promote
her father's literary works and reputation. The paper was
delivered at the American Conference for Irish Studies.
2. My essay on Sara Coleridge Coleridge's version of her father's work,
Biographia Literaria has just come out in a collection entitled,
Nervous Reactions: Victorian Re-Collections of Romanticism. If
you stop by the SUNY Press booth at the MLA book fair, you should be able
to see
galley proofs of the collection on display. Another essay, on images of
music education in early children's books by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary
Lamb, has just been published in the Italian journal, La Questione
Romantica, from the Universita di Bologna.
3.
And finally, on a personal note, I'm struggling to perfect high-altitude
bread baking. My sourdough starter, though quite a powerful mother, isn't
providing the rise and density that a really good sourdough loaf requires.
Perhaps it will become a poem. Or perhaps merely a trite metaphor to
depict life in the heady zones.
And that's the news from Flagstaff.