ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS! Please visit the new graduate student website uark.edu/ua/osre.
The National Endowment for the Arts has just announced its 2009 grant winners. Out of forty chosen, four are alumni of the University of Arkansas Creative Writing Program. Chelsea Rathburn, Thom Satterlee, Charles Rafferty, and Bill Notter each received $25,000 to write more poetry.
James T. Whitehead. The Panther: Posthumous Poems is now available at Amazon.com.
Buy Geoff Brock's new translation of Pinocchio now at Amazon.com.
Professor Michael Heffernan's new book, "The Odor of Sanctity" is now available for purchase at Salmon Poetry.
Professor Mohja Kahf's book, "The Girl in The Tangerine Scarf" is now available at Amazon.com.
NEWS
Professor Leo Van Scyoc 1926-2009
The Department of English is sad to announce the death on 14 February of Leo Van Scyoc, longtime teacher, mentor, and friend to countless students at the University of Arkansas over the last fifty years. The Van Scyoc family requests that anyone interested in honoring Leo's Legacy may do so by making a contribution to the Leo and Nola Van Scyoc Award in English. The Van Scyoc Award is given each year to a promising graduating senior who intends to pursue a career teaching English in the schools. Checks may be sent directly to the Department of English, Kimpel Hall 333, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.
Prof of Profs
For Allison Hogge, in memory of Brian Wilkie
I was a math major -- fond of all things rational.
It was the first day of my first poetry class.
The prof, with the air of a priest at Latin mass,
told us that we could "make great poetry personal,"
Could own it, since poetry we memorize sings
inside us always. By way of illustration
he began reciting Shelley with real passion,
but stopped at "Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my words, ye mighty, and despair!" --
because, with that last plosive, his top denture
popped from his mouth and bounced off an empty
chair.
He blinked, then offered, as postscript to his lecture,
a promise so splendid it made me give up math:
"More thingth like that will happen in thith clath."
-Geoff Brock
The Larry Guinn Endowed Award
The Larry Guinn Award has been established to honor the memory and legacy of Dr. Lawrence Guinn, who died February 7, 2007. Because of Larry's devotion to students and the teaching profession, the award will appropriately provide selected graduate students within the Department of English with financial support.
