Departmental News

The Department of English is pleased to announce that Ahsley Anna McHugh is the winner of the 10th annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. The judges were: John Hollander, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramar, Greg Williamson, and David Yezzi. Ms. McHugh will receive $3,000 and her book, Into These Knots, will be published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago. We offer her our warmest congratulations.

David Jolliffe, The Brown Chair in English Literature, has just been awarded one of the 2010 Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Recognition Awards for his distinguished career as a scholar and educator by West Virginia University. The award honors alumni whose lives reflect the commitment and excitement which broadly educated arts and sciences people bring to their civic, cultural, or professional life. We offer David our heartiest congratulations.

Chloe Honum, MFA student in creative writing, is a recent recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. The Lilly Fellowships, among the largest awards of their type offered to aspiring poets in the United States, are selected by the editors of Poetry magazine.

ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS! Please visit the new graduate student website uark.edu/ua/osre.

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.