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
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baclick@smcm.edu
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Alumni—where are they now?
Karyn Sailstad (class of 2007) graduated with an English major and a minor in Studio Art. She currently lives in Bath, England, where she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and interning with the children’s publisher Barefoot Books.
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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.
Reading landscape, walking words
Senior English major Shane Eyler is spending this fall traversing western Europe on foot, reading the works of travel writers past and present, and in turn writing about his experiences. He describes his initial plan:
"After flying into Glasgow and taking a train to Edinburgh to spend two days at the Fringe Festival, I went up to Inverness and started walking. I worked through untamed back country to the Isle of Skye. From Skye I hiked, half on highway, half on footpath and old Drovers trails to the English border where I worked through the Lake District and from there to Manchester. In the future I will be dropping by on fellow St. Mary's students at Oxford and hiking down the Cornwall Penninsula to Lands End and then over to London, Dover, and finally France. A long ramble through France will lead me (hopefully) to Italy, and my final destination of Rome. My days are filled with walking and twisting my tongue over poorly formed French, which makes me seem rather like a madman. At night I swing into pubs to eat, learn of the locals, and be showered with generosity, free drinks, and often a place to crash (if not, I always have my trusty tent). Lying in my sleeping bag, I read for several hours until overcome with weariness, pass out, wake up still feeling exhausted and prepare myself for another twenty miles of walking. Through it all I hope to come to a real understanding of the humanity that is everyone's shared birthright, man and the world's relation to God, and my tiny place in the vast ecology of existence."
