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Wendy Barker, Poet in Residence and
Professor of English, has received the
Violet Crown Book Award from the Writers'
League of Texas for her latest collection, a
chapbook of poems, Between Frames
(Pecan
Grove, 2006). The
award will be
presented at the
Texas
Book Festival on
November 3 in Austin. It carries
a $1,000 cash prize.
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Norma Cantú was
presented with the Premerio Letras de Aztlan
Award for her tireless work on behalf of
Chicana/o studies scholarship and community
activism by the 2007 NACCS Tejas Foco
conference.
She
has also been honored as one of two new National
Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Scholars for 2008. Dr. Norma Cantu was
presented with the Premerio Letras de Aztlan
Award for her tireless work on behalf of
Chicana/o studies scholarship and community
activism by the 2007 NACCS Tejas Foco
conference. |
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Sue Hum co-edited
the anthology,
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking, which has
just been
published (Parlor, 2007). |
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Joycelyn Moody, Sue E. Denman
Distinguished Chair in American Literature
accepted award from the Council of Editors of
Learned Journals (CELJ) an award for Best Special
Issue in 2007--African American Review for "The
Curse of Caste"; guest editor Veta Smith Tucker. |
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Steven G. Kellman is the
winner of the 2006 Nona Balakian Citation for
Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book
Critics Circle, the highest recognition for a
literary critic.
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David Ray Vance
is 2005 winner of the Del Sol Press Poetry Prize
for Vitreous, which debuts at # 19 on the
Poetry Best Seller List put out by the Poetry
Foundation. |
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