| Angela Vietto I'll spend May finishing up a round of revisions to my book-in-progress (Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America), due back at the publisher June 1. Later in June I'll present a portion of that study in Worcester, Massachusetts at the American Antiquarian Society's annual conference on the History of the Book. |
Jason Brown (BA, 2000) Since my last note in News and Views (Sept. 04) I have been accepted to the MFA program in fiction at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. This Fall I will leave behind the best job, employers, and co-workers I’ve ever had or will have. And I’m doing it all for the money and glory of writing. From March 30 to April 12, I also attended the AWP Conference and book fair in Vancouver, where I picked up more than forty free literary magazines. I bought a few, too. I just finished reading Mid-American Review (25th Anniversary Issue) which has to be one of the best collections in a single issue I’ve ever read. I attended a few lectures such as “When is it Done? The Process of Revision in Fiction” with panelists John McNally, Ron Carlson, Janet Burroway, and Rosellen Brown. I met McNally at a reception later that night and he’s as cool as his writing. I also attended a great poetry reading by the University of Pittsburgh press where I saw and talked to three of my favorite poets: Bob Hicok, Virgil Saurez, and Denise Duhamel. And Vancouver was great. I didn’t want to leave. I have also landed a few more publications. I have prose poems in the current issues of the Spoon River Poetry Review and Big Muddy and a sonnet in the current issue of Eureka Literary Magazine. I recently published a sestina in Gulf Stream Magazine, and you can read my poem “For Names” in the current issue of Margin. I also have poems forthcoming in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Karamu, Margie, Other Poetry (UK mag), and Pearl Magazine, and have a creative-nonfiction memoir about my wife and dog forthcoming in Concho River Review. FORTHCOMING Green
Hills Literary Lantern (out this summer) Karamu Margie Other
Poetry (UK mag) Pearl Spoon
River Poetry Review Big
Muddy Eureka
Literary Magazine Gulf
Stream Magazine Margin
My poem "Why My Mother Stayed with My Father" appears in the most recent issue of Poetry East, and "Sometimes I wish I had a Theory of Poetry" is reprinted in the The Atlanta Review's 10th anniversary issue. You'll find
the poem just before the Billy Collins poem but after the ones John Kilgore I went to the recent IPA conference in Decatur, and hey, where was everybody? Missed the faculty, but heard excellent papers by our graduate students Barry Hudek and Amanda Bright, plus a fine poetry reading by Megan Rankin, Laura Weinhammer, and Lavada Simpson. I thought so highly of one paper — "Computers in Composition: Promises Unfulfilled" by Ted Morrissey of Springfield College — that I have linked it to the Agora Links Page (and here). It seems that the challenges we struggle with in our ETIC classrooms are very widespread. My own papers were "Frisking the Governor's Daughter: On Puns" and "Little House in the Culture Wars: a Rant." Both also appear as columns in The Vocabula Review, in January and April, respectively. Dollie and I have a great trip planned for late May and early June: out to Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas, on to Oklahoma to visit relatives, then to Carlsbad Caverns to watch more bats than you can shake a stick at, on up to Albuquerque and lots more relatives, up to the west slope of the Rockies (Ouray, Telluride), on back thisaway along I-80 (Kansas, yawn), through Chicago to visit son Jay, back here on the last leg. We'll be towing the camper the whole way, so don't expect gas prices to go down. Oh yes, my essay "Love and Biology" will be reappearing in the May issue of TheScreamOnline. |
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