Bob Archambeau notes that he has seen a few things published this summer—an essay on John Crowe Ransom in The Hudson Review, an essay on Michael Anania in Valley Voices, something on recent Auden criticism for Essays in Criticism, and reviews for Boston Review and the Journal of Poetics Research. A poem by Sully Prudhomme that Jean-Luc Garneau and he translated for Krista Tippet’s NPR show On Being was rebroadcast, with Prof. Garneau reading it in an inimitable Gallic growl.  And yes, there’s a book due out in September, a collection of his essays from MadHat Press called Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Poetry from Conceptualism to Rhyme. He’s also been appointed Associate Editor of The Battersea Review, and he was one of the two participants in the debate “Poetry or Verse?” at the West Chester Poetry Conference (a debate he won).

Carla Arnell mentored three wonderful Richter scholars (Kayleigh Day, Isabel McKenzie, and Kendra Fobert), who, for a summer, shared her passion for researching Edwardian writers shaped by the twentieth-century mystical revival. She kayaked down the Crystal River in Glen Arbor, MI with her kids (not the epic endeavor it might seem!). She continued her truly epic quest to learn Russian. And at the fall matriculation ceremony, she was presented with the Bird Award, an award given annually to recognize an individual’s intellectual contributions to the college community.

Josh Corey recently collaborated with Jean-Luc Garneau (Professor of French) to translate the first book by influential French poet Francis Ponge. Their translation, Partisan of Things, will be published in September. Corey spent two weeks in August doing an artist’s residency at the Vermont Studio Center, where he finished the second draft of his second novel, Concord, the story of an idyllic small town in which all is not as it seems. To read about his experience at VSC, visit his blog at http://www.joshua-corey.com/blog/.  He was also interviewed by Lee Geiselmann for the Pine Hills Review, which you can read here: http://pinehillsreview.strose.edu/joshuacoreyqa/

And he saw a new poem “We Are Well in the Shelter” published in The Awl.

Judy Dozier notes that she recently had a short story titled “Kenny’s Friend” accepted for publication in the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks, which is scheduled for publication in January 2017.

Bunny Gallagher (professor emerita) has been spending summers in Connemara, Ireland, and winters in Solana Beach (California). One of her favorite books of late is Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture, which was short listed for the Man Booker Prize. And she is still thinking about writing a novel set at a small Midwestern liberal arts college, maybe with zombies.

Ben Goluboff reports that Ioana Cornea helped him edit and write the Introduction for Two Short Plays by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, part of the CCP’s Digital Chicago project. The print-on-demand volume and corresponding web gallery will appear this fall from Lake Forest College Press. Over the summer, he saw a new poem published in Bird’s Thumb: Keep Evolving. The poem bears the inimitable title, “Austin Dickinson Orders Trees for the Beautification of Amherst, Mass, 1887.” And for three days this summer, Goluboff was unable to put down M Train, the second volume of Patti Smith’s memoirs. 

Rick Mallette (professor emeritus) sets off in September for his first-ever trip to Central Asia. As part of the Road Scholar program, he’ll be visiting Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, among other fascinating places along the “Silk Road.”

Zach Martin had a life-changing summer. He got married in May, moved from Houston to Lake Forest in August, and had a new panel accepted for the upcoming Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference. The panel will feature past Gulf Coast editors talking about their favorite published pieces during the thirty-year life of that student-run journal. 

Davis Schneiderman had a short story “Do do the Poultice in Different Voices published in Notre Dame Review (Summer/Fall 2016) Issue 42. He and associate professor of theater Richard Pettengill will be co-hosting a “Grateful Dead”-themed radio hour on Thursdays from 3-4 PM. And he is also devoting countless hours to civic work by serving on multiple school board committees dedicated to finding a reconfiguration solution for his District 112 community. Kudos to Davis for his community leadership!