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.
Associate Professor of English
Africa and African Diaspora Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Montgomery Hall 124
240-895-4240
jlcoleman@smcm.edu
Jeffrey Lamar Coleman received his B.A. in Communications, with an emphasis in journalism and advertising, from Winthrop University, his M.F.A. in Creative Writing, with an emphasis in poetry, from Arizona State University, and his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. He is also the author of Spirits Distilled: Poems, published by Red Hen Press. His teaching interests include contemporary multicultural American literature, African-American literature, creative writing and literature of the human condition. His poetry and essays have appeared in several publications, including Blue Mesa Review, Black Bear Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Weavings 2000 and Critical Essays on Alice Walker. With support from the Maryland Humanities Council, he is a frequent guest lecturer throughout the state and country on the history and poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement.
