[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: The Kenyon Review Newsletter for November 2007

Fri Nov 30 13:58:46 PST 2007

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KENYON REVIEW NAMES NEW MANAGING EDITOR 

977f7e3.jpgThe Kenyon Review has named Tyler Meier as the magazine's new
managing editor. Meier has been a member of the KR family since 2004, when
he joined the staff of the Young Writers workshop as an instructor. In 2007,
he took on added responsibilities as Editor of the Kenyon Review Blog.

A 2001 graduate of Kenyon College, Meier received an MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of Washington in 2005. He served as Coordinating Editor
of the Seattle Review, and since 2006, he has worked as Merrill House
Director at Hampshire College. 

"Tyler Meier's appointment as Managing Editor of The Kenyon Review promises
a fresh vitality and important new ideas," said Editor David Lynn. "A
longtime member of the KR community--among other things Tyler has served as
an instructor in the Young Writers program for several years and as the
editor of the KR blog--he will strengthen our literary enterprise. I
especially look forward to his contributions to our electronic innovations
on the website, kenyonreview.org <http://www.kenyonreview.org> ."

PUSHCART PRIZES HONOR KR AUTHORS

977f831.jpgLinda Gregerson's poem "Bicameral" and Meghan O'Rourke's poem
"War Lullaby" (See KR Archive section below) were selected for 2008 Pushcart
Prizes. They appear in 2008 Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best Of The Small Presses,
out soon from Pushcart Press.

Additionally, three pieces from KR received special mention: Randy Fertel's
"Katrina <http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer06/fertel.php>  Five
Ways," Daniel Stern's "The Advancer," and Erin McGraw's "California."

Our hats are off to these writers for giving us the chance to publish their
work. Celebrate them with us by finding their other work: 

Linda Gregerson's most recent book of poems is
<http://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-North-Linda-Gregerson/dp/0618718702>
Magnetic North. 

Meghan O'Rourke's most recent book is
<http://www.amazon.com/Halflife-Poems-Meghan-ORourke/dp/0393064751>
Halflife: Poems. She writes a weekly column for the Arts and Life section of
slate.com <http://www.slate.com> . 

Erin McGraw's most recent book is
<http://www.amazon.com/Good-Life-Stories-Erin-McGraw/dp/0618386270> The Good
Life: Stories. 

Portions of Randy Fertel's memoir in progress appeared in
<http://www.amazon.com/My-New-Orleans-Ballads-Daughters/dp/0743293126> My
New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy. He has also served as a commentator on
NPR's "All Things <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2>
Considered." 

Last but not least, the late Daniel Stern's work is easily referenced in
this entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Stern_%28writer%29>  on him.

KENYON REVIEW LITERARY FESTIVAL REPORT

KR's own associate programs director, Abigail Wadsworth Serfass wraps up the
LitFest for us:

The First Annual Kenyon Review Literary Festival flooded the Kenyon campus
with authors, editors and literature lovers from near and far over the
weekend of Nov. 9-10.

The festivities were actually kicked off in New York City on Thursday the
8th at the Four Seasons restaurant where honoree Margaret Atwood received
the sixth annual Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. David Lynn,
editor of the Kenyon Review, was quoted in the Columbus Dispatch: "The
Kenyon Review trustees continue to honor writers who, over a period of
decades, have produced bodies of work that are both of the highest merit and
represent voices that are brave and resist commercial devaluation," Lynn
said. "Margaret Atwood sends that message loud and clear."

The festivities began on campus on Friday night with a Stone Soup Supper and
the Writers Harvest.  Both events were designed to raise awareness of the
problem of hunger in our community and raised over four hundred dollars
which will be donated to local charities.

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Stone Soup Supper in Weaver Cottage (Photo credit: Emily Zeller) 

Saturday’s panels, readings, seminars and roundtable discussions drew large
crowds. Many attendees and presenters remarked on the variety of sessions
offered and the enthusiasm with which the audience responded to the
different topics. The all-day CLMP Lit Mag Fair and Used Book Sale also
brought in a wide range of book lovers from all over with low prices and
great selection. 

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Atwood spoke with a small group of students about the writing life on
Saturday afternoon (Photo credit: Megan Nadolski)

The keynote event The Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture: An Evening with
Margaret Atwood filled Rosse Hall to capacity. Standing among the other
presenters from the day’s events who were seated on the stage, Atwood read a
short selection from her novel, Oryx and Crake, about a liberal arts college
in her dystopian future world. She went on to present what she called “two
of the possible talks” she could have given: one about the state of the
world today and the other about the value of a liberal arts education. After
a brief Q&A session, Atwood signed books for her many fans well into the
night.

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Atwood on stage at Rosse Hall (Photo credit: Will Peters) 

This inaugural Literary Festival was deemed a rousing success by all, and we
here at the KR offices look forward to planning the next one.

KENYON REVIEW ANNOUNCES NEW SHORT FICTION CONTEST

The Kenyon Review will begin accepting submissions for the Kenyon Review
Short Fiction Prize on February 1, 2008. The contest is open to all writers
under 30 years of age. Submissions must be 1,200 words or less to qualify
for the contest. 

The contest winner receives a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Writers
<http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/wwinfo.php>  Workshop. In addition,
the winning story will be published in a special section of The Kenyon
Review, along with the stories submitted by the first two runners-up. The
semi-finalists' stories will be featured online at the magazine's website,
www.kenyonreview.org <http://www.kenyonreview.org/> .

Submissions will be accepted beginning February 1, 2008, and concluding
February 15, 2008. Entries must be submitted through the Review's website,
where an entry form will be available. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO SAVOR "LA DOLCE VITA" (THE SWEET LIFE) AT THE KENYON
REVIEW WRITERS WORKSHOPS IN ITALY, MAY 26 - JUNE 1, 2008! 

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Inspiration abounds in the charming medieval village of Vitorchiano (in the
Tuscia region) where three workshops will be offered. Come read and write
poetry with David Baker. Or perhaps you'd prefer to write some fiction with
David Lynn (author, professor and editor of The Kenyon Review) or create
literary nonfiction with author Rebecca McClanahan. Accommodations at Hotel
Piccolo Opera include a private room, with private bath, and three meals a
day featuring traditional Italian fare. There will be excursions to nearby
sites, as well as time for participants to plan their own day trips to Rome
or Florence via train. The cost of this week-long program is $3,250, which
includes tuition, room, and meals. Airfare is not included. Deadline for
applications is March 15. If you have questions, please email
reacha at kenyon.edu or phone (740) 427-5207. We hope you will
<http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/italyinfo.php>  join us! 

Click <http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/slideshow/slideshow.html>  here
to view a slideshow of photos from the 2005 workshop.

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FALL 2006 

Meghan O'Rourke's poem "War Lullaby" was one of two KR poems selected for
the 2008 Pushcart Prize. Literary editor for Slate and co-poetry editor at
the Paris Review, O'Rourke will be an instructor at the 2008 Kenyon Writers
Workshop. She recently published her first book of poetry, Halflife. Her
poetry has been published the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Yale Review,
the New York Review of Books, and her prose in Poetry, the New York Times
Book Review, Slate, and the LA Times Book Review. 

WAR LULLABY

Meghan O'Rourke 

Wet daggers of grass
cast shadows over one another
beneath the porch light--

the boy stretched on the lawn,
fighting sleep,
fingers the tournament ring:

inside the house
his mother shouts, blinds
slap in the breeze,

and upstairs the smallest stir
as they sleep, eyelashes like
tiny whips against their cheeks.

The dogs bark, a door slams,
the boys breathe deep,
then shudder--

I have seen them
sleepwalk
out of the arms of mothers.

Read  <http://www.kenyonreview.org/interviews/orourke.php> KR's interview
with <http://www.kenyonreview.org/interviews/orourke.php>  Meghan O'Rourke. 

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Think of this section as a bulletin from KR in which we brag about the
accomplishments of the extended KR family and leave out the gall-bladder
surgeries.

Meena <http://www.poets.org/malex>  Alexander's new book of poems, Quickly
Changing River, will be published by TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern
University Press, in February 2008. 

Bruce Beasley's new book, The Corpse Flower: New And Selected Poems, has
been published this year by the University of Washington Press. His poems
have recently appeared in New American Writing, Field, Southern Review, and
in The Pushcart Book Of Poetry: The Best Poems From The First 30 Years Of
The Pushcart Prizes. 

Adam Day's poem "Then, Everything Slept" will appear in the January/February
issue of American Poetry Review. His work is currently featured in a gallery
show at Swanson Reed Contemporary Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky involving
works created by 21 artists from Louisville, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, who
have created original pieces responding to his poems. 

Clare Dunsford's book, Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, A Son, and the
Gene that Binds Them, has been published by Beacon Press. The book is
featured as the cover story of Boston College Magazine's fall issue. An
essay from that book, "Base Pairs," was published in the KR Winter 2006
special issue on the human genome. Another chapter, "Speaking of
Love/Reading My Son," will appear in Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on
Raising a Child with Special Needs, an anthology forthcoming from Beacon
Press in 2008. 

Holly Goddard Jones has been awarded a 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers
Award in recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our
culture and society. 

Joanie Mackowski's poem, "When I Was A Dinosaur," was included in Best
American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's), edited by Heather McHugh and David
Lehman. 

C.M. Mayo <http://www.cmmayo.com>  will lead a series of one-day writing
workshops in Mexico City during 2008 sponsored by Dancing Chiva Literary
Arts <http://www.dancingchiva.com> . Her one-day workshop on literary travel
writing, focusing on techniques for creating vivid novelistic effects in
travel narratives, will take place on January 19, 2008. She will teach a
workshop on techniques of fiction in October, 2008. 

Davis McCombs' second book of poems, Dismal Rock, was published in October
by Tupelo Press. It was chosen by Linda Gregerson for the 2005 Dorset Prize.

Erin McGraw's new novel, The Seamstress Of Hollywood Boulevard, is
forthcoming from Houghton-Mifflin in August. An excerpt entitled
"California" appeared in KR 28.4. 

Derek Mong has been awarded the Grand Prize from Alehouse Press for a poem
title "O h i o-" that will appear in the journal early in 2008. The poem can
be found on their website <http://www.alehousepress.com> . In addition,
Pleiades will run a feature on his work this winter, with an introduction by
KR Poetry Editor David Baker. 

John Rodden published two critical studies of George Orwell in 2007: Every
Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings (The
University of Texas Press), and The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
(Cambridge University Press). 

Deema Shehabi's poem "At the Dome of the Rock" is part of the Mutanabbi
Street Coalition: Exhibition of Broadsides, which is being shown at the San
<http://www.sfbc.org>  Francisco Center for the Book. She recommends In the
Heart of the Heart of Another Country by Etel Adnan (City Lights, 2005),
which she describes as "an exploratory memoir on identity and displacement."

Reginald Shepherd's fifth book, Fata Morgana, was published by the
University of Pittsburgh Press in spring 2007. His collection of literary
essays, Orpheus in the Bronx, will be published in the University of
Michigan Press Poets on Poetry series in 2008. Also forthcoming in 2008 is
his second poetry anthology, Lyric Postmodernisms, to be published by
Counterpath Press. He has recently been awarded a Florida Arts Council
fellowship, and he currently writes a blog on poetry and poetics at
http://reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com. He recommends Stephen Pinker's The
Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, which he describes
as "a fascinating book on the various relationships of language and
thought," and The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex
Ross, "an engaging and wide-ranging exploration of modern art music which
steers clear of the common extremes of either the beatification or the
vilification of modern music." 

Steven Ray Smith's work has recently appeared in the
<http://angelostateuniversity.net/dept/english/conchoriverreview.html>
Concho River Review.

Andrew Zawacki has two chapbooks forthcoming: Georgia, co-winner of the 1913
Prize, from Katalanché Press, and Roche limit, from Track & Field. His
translations of Sébastien Smirou have been appearing in 1913, Aufgabe,
Double Change, and Verse.

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