In Print

Reginald Watson's "The Tragic Mulatto Image in Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars and Nella Larsen's Passing" appeared in the College Language Association Journal (September 2002).  "The College Language Association, founded in 1937 by a group of Black scholars and educators, is an organization of college teachers of English and foreign languages which serves the academic, scholarly, and professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent.  Since 1957, the Association has published the CLA Journal, a quarterly featuring scholarly research and reviews of books in the areas of language, literature, linguistics and pedagogy."  CLA founder Hugh Gloster (1911-2002) professed, "The College Language Association always tried very hard to end Jim Crow in American Letters."

Pat Bizzaro's poem, "Violence," appears on the Poets Against the War Web Site.  According to [poetsagainstthewar.org], "Scores of Readings Held Around the World -- March 24, 2003 -- As the bombs are falling on Baghdad, lovers of poetry have gathered to read poems in a testimony for peace over the past 72 hours.  In Karachi, Pakistan, poets gathered at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture in a reading titled 'SPEAK OUT! Poetry for Peace.' In Temuco, Chile, poets gathered in a Wednesday reading they called 'Words Against War.' In Tucson, Arizona, poets held a reading and non-violent public protest against the at the Federal Courthouse that they called 'Poets' Brains Chained to the Ground.'  And in Seattle, poets gathered for a 3-hour poetry vigil at the Richard Hugo House."

Bob Siegel's essay, "The Twentieth Century Antihero and the Decline of Tragedy" has been published by Forum Modernes Theater 17.2 (2002).  Siegel writes, "Oedipus pursues the truth and that costs him his sight.  Hamlet avenges a ghost and that costs him his life.  But the plague is lifted from Thebes and the smell wafting from Denmark promises to be sweeter under the rule of Fortinbras.  The tragic hero of Sophocles and Shakespeare suffers but restores harmony to his world.  The antihero of the twentieth century in Western theater also suffers, but his journey often leaves his world in greater chaos.  Rather than answering some of our questions about life and humanity, he challenges us to question most of our preconceived answers.  He challenges us to be modern."

Donald Palumbo's article, "Internal Allusions and Recurring Mysteries in Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries," recently appeared in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 13:2 (February 2003).

"The Long Clear After the Hunt" by Mary Carroll-Hackett was published in the Carolina Quarterly (January 2003).  Since 1948, the Carolina Quarterly, published by UNC-Chapel Hill, has printed creative writing by established and emerging writers and poets.  Past contributors include A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, T. Coraghessan Boyle,  Raymond Carver, Mark Doty, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Smith, and Charles Wright.

Ahmar Maboob's essay, "The Future of English in Pakistan,"  was published as Discussion Paper no. 1 of the Understanding Pakistan series (February 2003) sponsored by the NGO (non-governmental organization) Strengthening Participatory Organization based in Islamabad.  Mahboob writes, "This paper aims to evaluate the future of English in Pakistan and to propose directions for a future language in education policy.  The directions proposed in this paper are based on two different studies.  The first study looks at the political history of English in Pakistan.  The second study explores the attitudes of Pakistanis towards various languages including mother tongue, Urdu, and English.  It is argued that a successful language in education policy is one that takes account of peoples' attitudes and motivations towards various languages and analyzes these perceptions in an historical framework."

Wendy Sharer's "Genre Work: Expertise and Advocacy in the Early Bulletins of the U.S. Women's Bureauî was published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 33.1 (Winter 2003).  Sharer writes: "Much genre theory explores genres as important sites of flux.  Instances of instability or change in genres often reflect -- and enact -- critical power struggles.  After tracing recent genre theory, I consider how the varied textual elements in the early bulletins of the Womenís Bureau of the US Department of Labor reflect and enact the power struggles that emerged as a particular group of American women labor activists attempted to gain authority within the federal bureaucracy."

Tina Register's essay, "The Death of Poetry," was published in an online journal for poets,  Poetic Voices (February/March 2003) [www.poeticvoices.com].  Register writes, "Recently having discovered prose poetry while pursuing my Master's in English, I was surprised by Peter Johnson's, the editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, response to my inquiry about submitting poems to the journal.  His simple reply to my email was: 'Unfortunately, the journal is dead.'  I was shocked. ..."