A special exhibition at the Concord Museum
Concord, Massachusetts
April 18 through September 21, 2014
Based on the eponymous Maureen Taylor books, The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation, brings together 30 photographic portraits of people who lived through the Revolution and survived into the age of photography. Gathered by one of the nation’s foremost historical photo detectives, Maureen Taylor, […]

Kate Northrop Wins the $25,000 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize

Kate Northrop, associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming, won the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize, an annual award given to a young writer of poetry or prose. The award comes with a $25,000 cash prize.

Northrop has been on the faculty at the University […]

News from the Library of Congress
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March 4, 2014
Poet Laureate Selects 2014 Witter Bynner Fellows, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Jake Adam York
The 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Natasha Trethewey, has selected […]

Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
            Kent State University Press author Brennan O’Donnell, a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature and President of Manhattan College, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award.
            The award is unique among literary and academic prizes in recognizing scholars who have made a […]

Anton “Tony” Bilek
Tony Bilek, 94, a longtime resident of Rantoul, Illinois, passed away on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at his home in Rantoul, Illinois.
Tony was born April 11, 1919, in Chicago, a son of Anton and Annastazie Bilek. He married Millie Podolak in January 1946, in Chicago. She preceded him in death in July 2000.
Mr. […]

The 2013 Kent State University Press catalog has won the 2nd place Award of Excellence in the Great Lakes Graphics Association’s Graphic Excellence Competition. The catalog was designed by KSU Press staff member Darryl Crosby and produced by Ripon Printers of Wisconsin. About the award, Darryl said,
“It’s always good to be recognized, though the production of our yearly catalog […]

Evergreen Medals for Health and Wellness

Bronze: The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing, by Cortney Davis (Kent State University Press)
“I learned that nursing is an odd, mysterious, humbling, addicting, and often transcendent profession… The stories patients reveal – with their complex emotional and physical histories and the multilayering of their lives – are as entrancing […]

Outdoor communicators receive more than $10,000 in awards from OWAA in 2013 contests

MISSOULA, Mont. – The Outdoor Writers Association of America is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Excellence in Craft contests. First-, second- and third-place winners were chosen in nine contests. Entries were from work created in 2012. Cash prizes totaled more […]

September 2013 marks the bicentennial anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Read about it in The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath: A Reassessment, edited by David Curtis Skaggs.
Visit the Battle of Lake Erie Bicentennial home page.

CHC professor dedicated to a quintessential tough guy
August 30, 2013

by Lou Mancinelli
Dr. Suzanne del Gizzo, an eighth-year Chestnut Hill College English professor, was named editor-elect of The Hemingway Review at the society’s annual board conference in late May. She follows the work of Suzanne Beegel, who retired in July after 22 years as editor. The […]