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March 26; 8:00pm	The English Department will sponser a reading in Fowlkes Auditorium. Ira Sukrungruang will read from her fiction and non-fiction and Katie Riegel will read from her poetry.
April 5; 8:00pm	Catherine Pierce will be reading poetry from her new collection, The Girls of Peculiar. The reading will be held in McCool Hall, room 100.
Feb. 2013	The Inaugural conference of the Southern Shakespeare Association has been scheduled to be held at Mississippi State University, February 22 & 23, 2013. The deadline for papers is December 15, 2012.
Spring term	Department head Rich Raymond is spending the spring term at the University of Pristina in Kosovo. He makes this visit as a Fulbright Scholar, the second time he has received such an opportunity and honor. http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=5341

February	Noel Polk's book of poetry, Walking Safari; or, The Hippo Highway has just been published by Texas Review Press, where it won the 2011 TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Mississippi.
Jan.	Undergraduate English major Donald (Field) Brown has been selected to be a Fellow in the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) and has been chosen as a McNair Scholar at the University of Iowa during June and July.
Jan.	Quarter After Eight will publish two of Becky Hagenst0n's flash fiction pieces, one of which won their short prose contest. Also, Indiana Review has accepted one of her stories for their upcoming issue.
Jan.	Three of Rich Lyons' poems have been accepted by diode and a long poem from his book manscript has been accepted by the Cincinnati Review.
Jan. 2012	Dr. Pierce has announced this year's winners of the MSU Creative Writing Contest. The first and second place winners in each category will also go on to represent MSU in the Southern Literary Festival competition. Fiction: 1st place: Falan McKnight, "Soul Food" 2nd place: Kelsey Norris, "Limbo" 3rd place: Rachael Burrow, "Adda Grace" Poetry: 1st place: Rachel Perkins, "In Which I Want" 2nd place: Lisa Fulgham, "The Tower of Babel" 3rd place: Kelsey Norris, "Domesticity of the Wanderers"
Nov.	Bonnie Carr O'Neill's article, titled "the Personal Public Sphere of Whitman's 1840s Journalism," appears in the currrent PMLA.
September	The CEA Critic has accepted for publication Rich Raymond's essay on Samuel Johnson. Titled "Teaching Johnson's Sermons: The Nexus of Literature and Rhetoric" the article grows from Dr. Raymond's Johnson seminar and from the excellent work of our graduate students.
September	Connotations: A Journal of Critical Debate will publish Shalyn Claggett's article on "Turning the Corner of Interpretation: A Response to Elena Anastasaki"
Sepember	Catherine Pierce's poem "Postcards from Her Alternate Lives" has been included in the Best American Poetry anthology for 2011.
Sept. 17	The English department held its fall symposium, hosted by Michele Crescenzo. Bonnie O'Neill read from her paper on "Frederick Douglass: Celebrity, Privacy, and the Embodied Self."
September	Jabberwock Review's Suummer 2011 issue (vol.31, no. 2) is now available.
Sept. 6	Don Bogen, author of [an.(A)lgebra] read his poetry at Fowlkes Auditorium in a reading sponsored by the Robert Holland Visiting Writers Series, the English Department, and the Creative Writing program.
July	Dr. Bonnie O'Neill, Assistant Professor of English, has been named the College of Arts & Sciences Researcher of the Month for July/August, 2011 (http://www.cas.msstate.edu/research/). Congratulations to Bonnie.
June 1	Texas Studies in Literature and Language will publish Lara Dodds' article on Milton's divorce tracts: "'To due conversation accessible': The Problem of Courtship in Milton's Writing on Divorce and Paradise Lost."
June	Michael Kardos's novel, The Three-Day Affair, has been accepted for publication by the Mysterious Press, the crime imprint of Grove/Atlantic.
June	Robert West's book of short poems, Convalescent, is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. Convalescent includes twenty of Dr. West's poems, plus three he translated from a little book first published a century ago, Guillaume Apollinaire’s Bestiary (1911). Many of the poems first appeared in Able Muse, Asheville Poetry Review, Christian Science Monitor, Hummingbird, Pembroke Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and MotesBooks’ second Motif anthology, Come What May: An Anthology of Writings about Chance.
April	Tommy Anderson and Scott Crossley have published "Rue with a Difference: A Computational Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide in Hamlet"; it's in a book titled Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language: Transdisciplinary Approaches. Also, College Literature has accepted Tommy Anderson's article "Titus, Broadway, and Disney's Magic Capitalism."
April	Student Carina Lewis has been accepted by the University of Mississippi law school.
April	Undergraduate student Kelsey Norris has been selected to be a participant in the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
April	Matthew Little's article on "Lear's 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose'" will soon reach print in the Explicator.
March 24	Michael Kardos read from his fiction, including his newly published One Last Good Time.
Feb. 24	Kevin Brockmeier read from his fiction as part of The Robert Holland Visiting Writers Series. Kevin Brockmeier is the author of three novels, two story collections, and two children’s novels. His work has been translated into sixteen languages, and he has published his stories in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford Ameri...can, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant.
February	Ted Atkinson's essay titled "Defying the Cultural Logic of Southern Exceptionalism in Absalom, Absalom! and Song of Solomon" will soon appear as a chapter in a book of essays on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.
Feb. 3	Robert West's poem "Prospect" appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.
February	Michael Kardos's One Last Good Time is now available from your booksellers. His short-short "The Ground Hog Develops a Sense of Nuance" appeared in the February 2 New York Times.
Jan. 25	Lyn Fogle is featured on the front page of the January 25 Reflector.
January	Poems by Robert West are included in The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. 3, Contemporary Appalachia.
January 2011	Rich Raymond's latest book, Readings in Writing Courses: Re-Placing Literature in Composition, has been released by Information Age Press of Charlotte, North Carolina.