Assistant Professor Karen Leona Anderson's poem "Receipt: Midway Entertainment Presents," originally published in Seneca Review, has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious 2012 Best American Poetry.
Program Information
Ben Click, Chair
Professor of English
240-895-4253
baclick@smcm.edu
Office staff: 240-895-4225
Faculty Spotlight
Professor of English Jeffrey Hammond's new book, Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties, is being published by University of Iowa Press this fall.
Student Spotlight
Melanie Kokolios's short story "Schadenfreude" has been published in Carve's Spring 2011 online issue and will appear in print in their 2011 anthology at the start of 2012.
Assistant Professor of English
Montgomery Hall 102a
240-895-2017
klanderson@smcm.edu
Author website: www.karenleonaanderson.com
Karen Leona Anderson received a B.A. from McGill University, an M.F.A in poetry from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Victoria University Wellington, and a Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Her poems have appeared in journals such as ecopoetics, jubilat, Verse, Indiana Review, The New Republic, Fence, Pleiades, Volt, Colorado Review, and Poetry Ireland Review; her book Punish honey is forthcoming from Carolina Wren Press in 2009. Her research interests include literature and science, literature and economics, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. poetry, contemporary poetry, ecopoetics, and environmental writing. Her current work is focused on economic and bioeconomic metaphor.
