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From New Issues Press:

Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His recent work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, the Offending Adam, and in the Best American Poetry 2011. He currently lives and teaches in Athens, Ohio, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Ohio University.

Anne Curzan was recently featured in the "Mini-Lectures Series" section on LSA's website. In this fifth segment of the feature, Curzan continues her look at the finer points of the English language.

The first segment can be viewed here.
The second segment can be viewed here.
The third segment can be viewed here.
The fourth segment can be viewed here.

Video production by Rob Hess.

From grubstreet.org:

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of our new $5,000 National Book Prize for Fiction is Eileen Pollack of Ann Arbor, MI, for her novel Breaking and Entering, published by Four Way Books. We received a significant number of submissions for this exciting award, and were honored to have acclaimed novelist Margot Livesey as our head juror. As part of the prize, Eileen Pollack will give a public reading on the evening of May 5th, 2012, along with our non-fiction winner, Wendy Call. Both winning authors will present craft classes at the 2012 Muse and the Marketplace conference that same weekend at the Park Plaza hotel.

From bookcritics.org:

On Saturday, January 21, at 6:30 p.m., the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its book awards for publishing year 2011 at a gala event held at Artists Space in downtown Manhattan. A crowd hovering around 200 braved a few inches of city slush to hear former NBCC winners and finalists present the lists. Also announced: Robert Silvers, longtime editor of the New York Review of Books, won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, and Kathryn Schulz won the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

It is a pleasure and a privilege for me to announce the three recipients of this year’s David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition:

Steve Engel

Joe Horton

Jessica Young

The four of us on the prize selection committee had to make some extraordinarily difficult decisions again this year, given the pool of highly qualified and talented instructors in the English Department Writing Program who were nominated. I would like to take this moment to congratulate all the instructors who were nominated. It is truly inspiring—and humbling—to get to read the letters from all of these instructors’ students and colleagues. And I think that all of us on the committee found ourselves thinking at various points, “I'm going to steal that idea for my own teaching!” as we read about the highly effective, thoughtful, innovative activities and assignments that all of these instructors employ in their classes.  The three instructors who were selected this year are remarkable for the energy, passion, insight, pedagogical skill and creativity, and commitment they bring to the teaching of writing.

Please join me and the rest of the committee in congratulating these accomplished instructors and celebrating their achievements. And I would like to thank David and Linda Moscow for their ongoing generosity to the Writing Program, which makes this wonderful prize possible.

Anne Curzan

Associate Professor & Arthur F. Thurnau Professor