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Lee Peterson’s poetry chapbook, The Forgiveness Dream, was selected from over a thousand entries by Black Lawrence Press through its Open Reading Period.

Casey Wiley’s story, “Xmas Eve,” was recently published at Works Progress.

Congratulations to Steele Nowlin, whose article “Whil thilke mirour laste: Virgil’s Mirror and the Work of Avarice in Gower’s Confessio Amantis” recently appeared in The Chaucer Review.

Sherita Johnson’s new book has been released: Mixing: Race, Higher Education, and the Case of Clyde Kennard (UP Mississippi, 2026).

Phillip Zapkin published a review of Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall’s novel Tauhou in a recent issue of Limina.

English student charts next chapter

Keith Gilyard, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies, published four books in 2025: his second memoir, The Promise of Language; his eighth volume of poetry, On Location; and two anthologies he edited, Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections and For Gaza’s Children: Black, Brown and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out.

Verna Kale has been elected President of the Hemingway Foundation and Society.

Thomas Bryant’s essay, “Playing Chicken: Queer Ecology and Anti-industrialism from Hawthorne to Wister,” has been accepted for publication in American Literature.

Stuart Selber was quoted in a New York Times Sunday Magazine Piece on AI in the classroom.