AEOLIAN HARPINGS
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April 16, 2007 Department of English Volume XLI, Number 13
BaylorUniversity
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***The final English Department meeting of the academic year will be at 2:00 p.m. in CS 101 on Friday 27 April 2007.
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Beall Poetry Festival
Student Literary Contest Awards
March 29, 2007
Fiction Winners
3 Dorothy Scarborough Fiction Awards, $100, $75, and $50, given by the Baylor
University Alumni Association
$50: “Son of Shiloh” –Elizabeth Suggs
$75: “An Unlikely Pheasant Tale”—Jonathan Westerfield
$100: “The Blockade”—Matthew Waller
Poetry Winners
2 House of Poetry Prizes, $50 each, given by Lloyd Sanborn
“The Island”—Christina Jeffrey
“Proof of an Architect”—Jessica Hooten
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Wissler Award, $75
“Catch”—Heather Hughes
The Poetry In The Arts, Inc., Dr. Robert G. Collmer Award, $100
“The Inn”—Mary Kolner
The Poetry In The Arts, Inc., Dr. James E. Barcus Award, $100
“The Reapers”—Stephen Schuler
The Poetry In The Arts, Inc. Award, $100
“Mater Primigena”—Rachel Crawford
Poetry In the Arts Prizes given by Mrs. Peggy Lynch
Academy of American Poets and Virginia Beall Ball Poetry Prizes, $100
“Sparagmos”—Stephen Fisk
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Dr. William V. Davis’ poems “The Gingko Leaf (later),” “A Far Field,” and “The Shed” have been published in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.
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Dr. Kevin Gardner's review essay, "John Betjeman: Centenary Publications" appears in the current issue of Religion and the Arts, pp.98-117. Dr. Gardner has also received commissions from Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America and The Library to review William Peterson's bibliography of the works of John Betjeman just published by Oxford UP.
Dr. Kevin Gardner has received news that his essay, "Light Falling on England: History and Landscape in the Poetry of C. H. Sisson," has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Religion and the Arts.
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Dr. Joseph Jeyaraj presented a paper titled "Liminality and Postcolonial Bureaucracy" at the 2007Association of Teachers of Technical WritingAnnual Conference in New York, New York, March 2007. He also presented a paper titled "Writing the Body: A Pedagogy of the Personal" at the 2007 Conference for College Composition and Communication in New York, New York, March 2007.
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Lydia Cooper has an article, "Human Voices:Language and Conscience in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," forthcoming in the next issue of The Canadian Review of American Studies.
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Jessica Hooten was invited by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute to participate in a graduate symposium on "Individual Rights and Responsibilities" at PrincetonUniversity in February. In March she presented two papers, one for the AmericanAcademy of Religion conference held in Dallastitled "How Anthropology Robbed Poetry" and the other at the Inklings Society conference at Hardin-SimmonsUniversity titled "A Defense of G.K. Chesterton's Detective Stories."
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Bethany Lam presentedher paper, "Light in August in Light of Foucault: Re-Examining the Biracial Experience," March 2 at the 2007 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Information has been received from ClevelandStateUniversity concerning its Imagination: Writer’s Workshop and Conference to be held July 17-22, 2007. Application deadline is June 11, 2007. For more information, please see the flier on file in CS 106.
CONFERENCES – CALLS FOR PAPERS
Information has been received from Rattle concerning its 2007 Poetry Prize. The contest is open to writers worldwide. Poems must be written in English (no translations). Submissions will be judged in a blind review by the editors of Rattle. Type or print clearly your name, address, email address, phone number, and the titles of the poems onto a cover sheet. NO contact information should appear on the poems. Include a check or money order for $16.00 payable to Rattle. The entry fee of $16.00 includes a one year subscription to Rattle. You may not submit any previously published works, or works accepted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts will not be returned so please include a SASE if you would like to be notified of the results. Winners will be announced no later than September 15, 2007, and those poems will be published in the Winter 2007 issue of Rattle. Postmark deadline for entries is August 1, 2007. For more information, please see the flier on file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from Renegade, an online journal of short stories and creative nonfiction. Renegade is now accepting short story entries for its Inaugural Issue, October 1, 2007. The winning story will be published, and its author will receive $500. Honorable mention selections will be considered for publication as well. Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2007. For more information, please see the flier on file in CS 106.
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