Joan McBreen

Student Q&A with Irish poet Joan McBreen.

A Performance of Songs and Poetry of World War I

Part of the "Music, History, and Culture in the Shadow of the Great War" lecture series. Presented by the UK Opera Research Alliance and UK Opera Theatre.

  • Dr. Tedrin Blair Lindsay, program organizer and collaborative pianist
  • Vocalists: Dr. Beth Arnold, Dr. Dennis Bender, Makeda Hampton, Kelsey Loeslie, Michael Pandolfo, and Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa
  • Readers:  Dr. Jonathan Allison, Alec Foust, Katie Gaffin, Dr. Pearl James, Andrew Thibadeau, and Crystal Wilkinson

800 Acorns Anniversary

We celebrated the first anniversary of the 800 Acorns planting by Kentucky Writers and Artists for Reforestation. There was paintings by John Lackey, photography by Morris Grubbs, a short film by Sean Anderson, and a short program of music and poetry. A beautiful broadside of a Mary Ann Taylor-Hall poem was given to attendees as keepsakes.

A&S Faculty Members Participate in SEC Travel Program

By Torrie Johnson

The SEC (Southeastern Conference) Faculty Travel Program will support more than 100 SEC faculty members during the 2018-2019 academic year, the league office announced Monday. Nine University of Kentucky faculty members will participate. Established in 2012 by the SEC provosts, the program is designed to provide financial assistance from the SEC office that bolsters intra-SEC collaboration.

Now Accepting Nominations of Books for our 2019 Book Prize

The editors of Early American Literature are pleased to announce the fifth annual Early American Literature Book Prize, which will be given for an author’s second or subsequent academic monograph about American literature in the colonial period through the early republic (roughly 1830). The prize is offered in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press, the Society of Early Americanists, and the MLA’s Forum on American Literature to 1800.

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