In Print

Pat Bizzaro's review article, "The Craft of Baseball Poetry," appeared in Asheville Poetry Review 10.1 (2003).  Bizzaro writes, "Among the cliches about sports literature is that sport is a metaphor for life.  Not that this notion is untrue.  But it is a bit overused.  We should not be surprised then that ... the best poems are the ones that do not exploit baseball as a metaphor.  Rather, the best poems are the ones that permit the literal event to resonate.  With baseball, perhaps more than with other sports in America, the event itself is often loaded with significance, often summoning from readers responses to issues off the subject, issues related intimately to the context baseball creates. ... Ironically, though time falls meaninglessly through a baseball game, baseball itself has fallen with terrific weight through events of a nation, a community, and an individual family."  Bizarro also served as contributing editor to the Kirzner and Mandell editions of The Pocket Handbook for History, The Pocket Handbook for Psychology, and The Pocket Handbook for Biology, published by Heinle & Heinle, Boston, MA (2003).

Christine Hutchins's article, "Sacred Concordances: Figuring Scripture and History in Foxe's Acts and Monuments," was published in Reformation volume 8, "the leading English-language journal for the publication of original research in scholarship of the Reformation era.  Already academically highly regarded, it is published annually under the aegis of the Tyndale Society.  The Tyndale Society has now joined forces with Ashgate, publishers of the series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History."

Peter Makuck published several poems, "Wild," "Haunts," and "Promised Land," in the Portuguese journal Neo, and "Last Call: Elegy for Bill Matthews" in Orion, the Magazine of Culture, Creativity, and Change November/December (2003).  Orion can be accessed online <http://www.orionsociety.org/index2.html>

Bryan Oesterreich's essay, "Bright Lights, Forest City," appeared in the December issue of Our State magazine.  Oesterreich writes, "Lights are everywhere -- up the streetlight poles, swirling up and around the deep green fir and oak trees that line the sidewalks and center the boulevard.  They coat the boxwoods and azaleas. They hang lazily on overhead powerlines.  There are enough lighted snowflakes to be seen on Doppler radar.  Lighted reindeer.  Lighted candy canes.  Lighted fountains.  And tiny white lights flicker around park benches.  Strollers say they feel completely immersed in a radiant fantasyland."

Resa Crane Bizzaro served as co-author with Laurie Kirzner and Steven Mandell for The Pocket Handbook to Biology (2003), a writing handbook for the Biology student and professional.  Phil Adams, coordinator of the University Writing Center, co-authored The Pocket Handbook for Psychology, which also served as a portion of his MA thesis for the ECU Dept. of English.