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Joanna Klink's second book of poetry, Circadian, was published in July by Penguin Books.
Poet Linda Gregg says of Circadian: "Joanna Klink has the audacity to write about the happiness of the
ordinary in the language of the ecstatic. Her intensity makes the world visible." Another poet, Dean Young,
also extols Klink's new volume: "In this, Joanna Klink's remarkable second book, the meditative sounding of the
human pang, its need for intimate connection and its contrary need for the clarities of solitude, reminds us that
precision is a cutting edge that creates dazzle. With a Dickinsonian desire for a meeting of minds and a reverence
for the natural world that is tried by an awareness of mortality and ecological peril, these poems remain alert to
the reparations of beauty and song, formally elegant, urgent and moving."
A culmination of his many years of interest in the work of Charles Darwin, John Glendening offers The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank, published in June by Ashgate Publishing. The book includes chapters on Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Stoker's Dracula, and the early fiction of Conrad.
Deirdre McNamer's new novel, Red Rover, has been published (available on 8/2) by Viking Adult.
Bob Pack's book, Willing to Choose: Volition and Storytelling in Shakespeare's Major Plays, was published by Lost Horse Press in May. Harold Bloom deems Pack's study "a poignant and mature meditation on the world's greatest writer."
Kevin Canty's short story collection, Honeymoon, has been published in Italian as Tenersi la mano del sonno.
Casey Charles's chapbook, Controlled Burn, is available from Pudding House Press.
Debra Earling has been awarded a presitigious 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. Of the nearly 2,800 applicants
for 2007, only 189 awards were granted. The grants were created to support the work of those artists, scholars, and
scientists "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability
in the arts." Earling wins the fellowship a year after another member of the Creative Writing faculty, Judy Blunt,
also won a Guggenheim.
Katie Kane received an NEH grant to join fourteen other scholars at the five-week seminar,
"Anglo-Irish Identities," hosted by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of
Notre Dame in July.
Karen Volkman was invited for a four-week Visting Artist residency at the American Academy in Rome in June.
Kevin Canty taught at the Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the Scuola Omero in Rome.
Ashby Kinch received a University Small Grant to conduct research in England on parish church wall paintings of macabre motifs.
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