A new booklet, Guide to the English Major at the University of Toledo, is now available in the English Department main office. The Guide describes the four concentrations within the English Major, lists their requirements and the courses that meet each requirement, and gives information on English Honors, graduate study, scholarships, and faculty specialties. The [...]
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Rane Arroyo’s poem, “The Buried Sea”, which was included in his collection published by University of Arizona Press, was published in Mid-American Review, Volume XXIX #1: pages 21-22.
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Jane Bradley’s story collection Are We Lucky Yet? Was a Runner Up in the AWP Grace Paley Short Fiction Competition with a rave review from the judge Allan Gurganus that notes: Comedy alongside heartache, these stories croon honky-tonk ballads after closing-time. They wade in loss but keep scanning for a Coast Guard rescue copter. [...]
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The 2nd Issue of the English Department’s Literary Journal- Toledo Review-has just been published. The journal was edited and designed by students in ENGL. 4950: Literary Magazine Production, and includes poetry and prose from both nationally recognized writers and local writers. Issues are available for $2.00 (less than 20 cents per poem) in the English [...]
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The Department of English Language and Literature and its faculty are actively engaged with the Toledo-area community. Here are some recent examples.
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Annual Summers Lecture with reception, free and open to the public, often preceded by workshops on the topic of the lecture, [...]
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Dan Nowak’s first poetry collection, Recycle Suburbia, was the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award Winner, and is now available at Amazon. Congratulations to Dan, a UT Creative Writing graduate! Here is a blurb about the book. “Dan Nowak’s Recycle Suburbia is effervescent, irreverent, erotic, and funny. He celebrates the absence of maps, and how you can get [...]
Les Edgerton was a Writer-in-Residence in the UT English Department from Fall 2004 to Spring 2007, so he never saw the Department’s move to the Field House. However, he has kept in touch. He recently e-mailed to let us know that his baseball book came out this spring (Perfect Game USA) and “UT [...]
Jane Bradley writes with the news that three of our creative writing concentration majors have been accepted into graduate programs — and all with assistantships and tuition stipends. She’s included their photos, as even their professors let names slip their minds. Julianne Arthur has been accepted to Indiana State University’s MS program for Student affairs [...]
Department of English Professor Rane Arroyo’s newest book is The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems. Learn more and read an excerpt from it at The University of Arizona Press website.
Prof. Arroyo got the recent news that The Buried Sea has been nominated for a ForeWord Magazine poetry book of the Year prize, and [...]
We almost missed telling everyone about this Toledo Blade article from back in January about Prof. Joel Lipman, Lucas County’s one and only Poet Laureate. He’s been busy in other ways, too:
Sixteen “Cut Ups from Burroughs” published in The Exquisite Corpse Annual [issue #1, 2009], edited by Andrei Codrescu
[ISSN 1943-6122; ISBN-10 0615228577]. The [...]
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