Dr. Helen Damico inducted as a Fellow to the Medieval Academy of America

Medieval Academy  of America

19 January 2015 To the Members of the Medieval Academy: I am very pleased to introduce the 2015 Class of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America: FELLOWS: Helen Damico (Univ. of New Mexico) Sharon Farmer (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) Margot Fassler (Univ. of Notre Dame) Robin Fleming (Boston College) Richard Kaeuper (Univ. of Rochester) Maureen Miller (Univ. of California, Berkeley) David Nirenberg (Univ. of Chicago) Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Anders Winroth (Yale Univ.) CORRESPONDING FELLOWS: Paul Brand (Univ. of Oxford) Constant Mews (Monash Univ.) Felicity Riddy (Univ. of York) I hope you will join me in honoring these accomplished scholars during the Fellows' Plenary Session of the upcoming Annual Meeting.   Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America Secretary to the Fellows

Daniel Worden on “B-Side Modernism” and Joe Brainard’s experimental comics

Daniel Worden’s essay “Joe Brainard’s Grid, or, the Matter of Comics” has just been published in the “B-Side Modernism” issue of the online journal nonsite.org. The essay is available here: http://nonsite.org/article/joe-brainards-grid-or-the-matter-of-comics

With the support of the Mellon Foundation, the special issue’s release coincides with an exhibition of rare materials from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library and a two-day “B-Side Modernism” symposium at Emory University. Find out more and peruse an online exhibition of materials from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library here: http://nonsite.org/issue-15-b-side-modernism

Five Questions for New Mexico Authors - Sharon Oard Warner - New Mexico Mercury

Please see the full interview with Professor Warner at NewMexicoMercury.com!

Book Release, Of Small Children / And Other Poor Swimmers: Poems by Brian Hendrickson

"Of Small Children / And Other Poor Swimmers is centered in the push-pull of place. Hendrickson wants to leave behind his Florida childhood, where every memory is still moist, but he continues ‘calling on the voices’ and crossing back, wading into love, loss and danger with vivid imagery." - 

Lauren Camp, author of three collections of poetry, including One Hundred Hungers, and winner of The Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press)

"Hendrickson's literary prowess is plentiful, but what intrigues me most is how the collection calls us to embrace, fully, what's most formidable (and most innocent) in our own humanity. As if each shattering was merely a good throttle and every devastation could blossom on chain link. The smallest moments of truth. The largest. Line-break-grit / word-ache-gorgeous. How stark, how challenging and awkward, how irresistible our foibles become when rendered by Hendrickson!" - 

Lisa Gill, recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and author of five books, including Caput Nili and Red as a Lotus

"Brian Hendrickson demands the inclusion of the real press of the discursive and meditative into his poems, by juxtaposing multiple levels of diction, and by frequently shifting between the anecdotal, the essayistic, and the lyrical. Through his careful use of these techniques, Hendrickson is able to achieve James Scully's ideal of ‘audacious speaking’: he refuses to capitulate either to the lyrical moment or the abstraction, and so his poetry exists and persists as an urgent place for utterance of consciousness." - Don Winter, author of seven collections of poetry, including Saturday Night Desperate

The Book Release, Of Small Children / And Other Poor Swimmers: Poems by Brian Hendrickson will be celebrated at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW,. on Wednesday, December 3rd at 7:00 PM

Book Links:

·  http://poet.brianhendricksonwriting.com

·  https://www.facebook.com/ofsmallchildren

Event Links:

·  http://www.bkwrks.com/brian-hendrickson

·  https://www.facebook.com/events/492339587573548/

Professor Sharon Warner interviewed by the New Mexico Maganize

"Taos Summer Writers’ Conference founder Sharon Oard Warner talks about her new novel and tending to D.H. Lawrence’s local legacy."

Please see the full article, "Sharon Oard Warnder:  Homing In", by Candace Walsh from the New Mexico Magazine.

Anita Obermeier Publishes Book Review

Anita Obermeier publishes book review of Scattergood, John, Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010) in Mediävistik 26 (2013): 288-89.

Brian Hendrickson Published in Mosaic

Brian Hendrickson published "Irreverently Unromantic: A Rhetorical Path to Sophistic Poetics in the Poetry of Bob Hicok." in the June 2014 issue of Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary studyof literature.

"Irreverently Unromantic" is a rhetorical analysis of Bob Hicok's earliest and most recent poems in which Hendrickson reveals how the poet modifies the terms of the central problem in contemporary poetry--Romantic irony--by employing an irreverent poetics he describes as sophistic to highlight its rhetorical tendencies while differentiating it from the inverted Platonism of Romantic irony.