Digital Issue, which includes an essay by Traci Brimhall.
Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department’s recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards.
We’re happy to recognize the recent successes in research, scholarship, and creative activity outlined below.
Want to catch up on past successes or to find future announcements? Visit our archive of monthly newsletters Reading Matters as well as related blog posts.
Have news to report? Email us at english@ksu.edu.
— Karin Westman, Department Head
Publications
Traci Brimhall, “Memento Mori” (essay). West Branch, no. 104, Winter 2024.
“A Group of Moths” (poem). Copper Nickel, no. 38, Spring 2024, p. 24.
“The End of Girlhood,” “Crown Shyness,” and “Through a Glass Darkly” (poems). EcoTheo Review, Winter 2023, pp. 6-8.
“Take Two” (poem). Prairie Schooner, vol. 97, no. 2, Summer 2023, pp. 156-57.
Presentations
Traci Brimhall, Poetry Out Loud (emcee). Topeka, KS. 2 Mar. 2024.
Dusty Bookshelf Open Mic Night (emcee). Manhattan, KS. 22 Feb. 2024.
“Poetry on the Plains: Laureateship in the Midwest” (moderator). Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Kansas City, MO. 22 Feb. 2024.
“Workshop Feedback: An Unmanageable Labor of Love?” (panelist). Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Kansas City, MO. 22 Feb. 2024.
Readings: EcoTheo Review, Rock and Roll Reading, and Bear Review Reading. Kansas City, KS. 7-9 Feb. 2024.
Daniel A. Hoyt, excerpts from Shit List (fiction reading). Whiskey Tit Reading. Kansas City, MO. 10 Feb. 2024.
“We Can’t All Marry Rich: Teaching Creative Writing Students Professional Skills” (panelist). Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Kansas City, MO. Kansas City, MO. 9 Feb. 2024.
Excerpts from This Book Is Not for You (fiction reading). Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Kansas City, MO. 8 Feb. 2024.
The 11th Annual Rock and Roll Reading (curator/organizer). Kansas City, MO. 7 Feb. 2024.
Michele Janette, “We Gotta Get Out of This Frame: Dao Strom’s Reworking of Vietnam War Photography,” English Deparment Colloquium. 14 Feb 2024.
Phillip Marzluf, “The Execution of George Grant: Representations of Violence on the Mongolian Frontier.” XVI Annual Mongolian Studies Conference. Washington, DC. 2 Feb. 2024.
Awards
Traci Brimhall has won a Public Media Award for Performing Arts Programming for Poetry Out Loud with KTWU.
Elizabeth Dodd, Nonfiction Editor for Terrain.org, together with Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin and Poetry Editor Derek Sheffield, has won the 2024 Small Press Publisher Award from the Associated Writing Programs. They received the award at the national conference on February 7 in Kansas City. Terrain.org is a nonprofit, independent magazine of place, climate, and justice publishing online since 1998.
Announcements
Six English majors became new members of our local chapter of the international English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta.
Featured in Media
Beth Jones (MA ’25) (as L.C. Mortimer) was recently interviewed by VoyageKC to talk about diversity in books, specifically with foster care representation in stories.
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