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News From Our Fellows lists current notes from Reynolds Readers, Sandhill Crane Litfest Fellows, Scholars and other visiting guests recognized by acknowledgements given by the Reynolds Chair and the Creative Writing Committee, as conferred by the Reynolds Chair of UNK.

Please join us in celebrating these literary greats & their latest news notes:

Sam Hamill: The first of four proposed books is going to press in China next month, a bilingual selection from Hamill's Chinese translations Crosssing the Yellow River, to be followed by Lu Chi (The Art of Writing) and selected poems in Chinese. 

Friends of BOA, 

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg concluded his 9/11 address with some lines of poetry that may sound familiar. That's because they were quoted from the 2009 BOA title, Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone by Matthew Shenoda!  

The quotes are from Matthew's poem "Donkey Carts and Desolation": 

Ingenuity is the notion of building/ On a foundation made from loss 

You can watch the speech here (the quote takes place at 9 minutes 15 seconds into the video): 

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7662057 

We applaud Mayor Bloomberg's choice in using poetry to communicate his challenging message and congratulate Matthew Shenoda on having his powerful words provide solace to so many people. 

All Best, 

Peter 

Shenoda was one of the few American poets invited to speak to poetics in America in celebration of over a hundred years of the Poetry Society of America: http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/qa_american_poetry/  

Anne Waldman

AWP is releasing new podcasts culled as representational samples of the annual AWP Conference. First up, Anne Waldman! (Stay tuned to this link as the UNK English Department Sandhill Crane LitFest will also be permanently featured by the 24th of September.)

http://www.awpwriter.org/awppodcasts/index.htm 

Rick Marlatt, Reynolds Reading Series Reader, recent MFA graduate UCR, and MA alumnus from UNK, has his first volume of poetry forthcoming and was nominated for four Pushcart Awards in 2010. The volume is titled, How We Fall Apart, and won the poetry chapbook award for publication with Seven Circle Press. More here: http://www.rickmarlatt.com/  

LeeAnne Howe 2008-2010 Crane Fellow

Each year of the continuous annual Literary Cranefest, distinguished author and American Book Award Winner, LeAnne Howe, Professor at UIUC, has participated as a cohost of the festival and has been integral to the programming success. Among numerous awards and publications during these three years, she has recently been awarded a Fullbright Fellowship and is currently serving in the capacity in Jordan, a place she made her second home for a previous extended stay. Recent Interview with Pr. Howe: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/melus/v035/35.3.squint.pdf  and also see LeAnne Howe 2011 Tulsa Library Trust's American Indian Author Award. http://tiny.cc/sug1z . 

 See what is new with LeeAnne by visiting her weblog .
 

Quincy  Troupe, two time guest, has just been announced as the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. He is a previous two time American Book Award winner, author of 17 heavily lauded books, editor of Black Renaissance Noire, and a Cranefest Fellow and Career Achievement noted author of the Reynolds Series. A film is being made about the friendship of Quincy Troupe and Miles Davis, in which Laurence Fishburn plays Professor Troupe and Samuel Jackson plays Miles Davis. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/489   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/reed/detail?entry_id=73123 

Sherwin Bitsui, two time guest, has just been announced as a winner of a 2010 American Book Award and a PEN Open Book Award (formerly titled Beyond Margins Award) for his second volume, Flood Song. Mr. Bitsui is a Literary Cranefest Fellow and Reynolds Series Reader. http://www.bitsui.com/   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/reed/detail?entry_id=73123  http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5294/prmID/1865  http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1491
 

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Arthur Sze, Career Achievement noted author of the Reynolds Series, has recently published Chinese Writers on Writing. Chinese Writers on Writing is a premier collection gathering Chinese writers' reflections on their literary works, their writing processes and the challenges of writing within China’s politicized system. Sze is a profound "poets' poet" and was the inaugral Poet Laureate of Santa Fe. Sze is a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellow, a phenomenal poet--and editor! http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/arthur-sze/  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/52 Sze's latest authored book, The Ginkgo Light has just won the  2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association book award in poetry http://www.mountainsplains.org/regionalbookawards.aspx 

Wang Ping, two time guest, Literary Crane Fellow, was recently acknowledged with a Loft Literary Center McKnight Artist Fellowship, a Minnesota Book Award, an Association of Asian Studies Book Award, and a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency at Marfa. http://www.wangping.com/ 

 Cristina Eisenberg 2009 Crane Fellow

Cristina Eisenberg participated in the Wateron Wildlife Weekend Festival Program, in September 2009, as a presented guest.  She has also received acknowledgment  for her work regarding wolf reclamation and has been featured in both the February 15, 2010 issue of High Country News  and National Geographic's March 2010 issue.  Her Research was featured in the "Prodigal Dogs,"  featured story in the High Country News and the cover story "Wolf Wars,"  in National Geographic. Her new volume, The Wolf's Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity is available here. Cover matter includes: Animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate influence on their environment; dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from—or returned to—an ecosystem. In The Wolf’s Tooth, scientist and author Cristina Eisenberg explores the concept of “trophic cascades” and the role of top predators in regulating ecosystems. Her fascinating and wide-ranging work provides clear explanations of the science surrounding keystone predators and considers how this notion can help provide practical solutions for restoring ecosystem health and functioning.

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