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CONGRATS Bondurant Prize Winners!

We had a record number of submissions for the English Department's Creative Writing Awards this year, and the submissions were very, very … [Read More...]

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Traci Brimhall Selected as 2012 Summer Poet in Residence

  Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for … [Read More...]

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Poet Beth Ann Fennelly Named UM Humanities Teacher of the Year

… Honoree sets reading, lecture for Oct. 27 OXFORD, Miss. – Passion for poetry and teaching have earned one of the University of … [Read More...]

Open House

by Beth Ann Fennelly “With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance.” —Robert Hass

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Poachers: Stories

  by Tom Franklin             In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world… [Continue Reading]

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Poems

by Ann Fisher-Wirth

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True Blood

by Chris Offutt

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10 Moons and 13 Horses

by Gary Short Gary Short’s new collection is the work of a mature poet at the peak of his powers, confident of his ability to speak of human betrayal and the fragility of life without bitterness or cheap sentiment, to find poignancy in loss and exaltation in the outwardly mundane. His voice is lyrical, tough,… [Continue Reading]

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Shut Up, Ugly

Jack Pendarvis

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