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New Ohio Review Debuts Issue 23, Runs Contest for Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

Issue 23 of New Ohio Review

by Kristin Distel New Ohio Review, one of OHIO’s literary journals, recently debuted its 23rd issue at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Tampa. New Ohio Review is edited by alumni Dr. David Wanczyk and Tom Tiberio, both of whom are graduates of Ohio University’s creative writing […]

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March 15, 2018 at 7:47 pmNews

Alumni News | Planton Featured in Bright Young Librarians Series

Isabel Planton

Ohio University alum Isabel Planton ’06, who is the public services librarian at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, was profiled by Fine Book Magazine’s Bright Young Librarians series. Connect with Planton on LinkedIn. See her IU webpage. Planton earned a B.A. in English and a Women’s Studies […]

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March 15, 2018 at 1:44 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Quarter After Eight Features Hybrid Writing, New Voices

The issue's cover features artwork, titled "Pincushion," by visual article Nicole Havecost

by Kristin Distel Quarter After Eight, one of Ohio University’s creative writing journals, published its 24th issue with Derek Robbins, doctoral candidate in creative writing, as the journal’s current editor. The journal, which has been run by OHIO graduate students since its founding in 1994, features innovative writing styles, voices, […]

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March 15, 2018 at 1:17 pmNews Research

Little Writes on Conformity: Don’t ‘Become So Mesmerized by Our Identities’

JJacob Little, Doctoral Student of Creative Writing and Co-Founder of PROFANE

Jacob Little, a doctoral student in Creative Writing at Ohio University, published an article headlined “Escaping Conformity” in Quillette. In the article, Little responds to a Tumblr post that began, “Here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can ‘alienate allies’ by not being nice enough….” “The person who […]

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March 15, 2018 at 12:56 pmResearch

‘Losers Dream On’ in Halliday’s New Book of Poems

Dr. Mark Halliday

Dr. Mark Halliday’s new book of poems, Losers Dream On, has recently been published with the University of Chicago Press. Halliday, Professor of English at Ohio University, says the poems in this new collection “keep finding tension—sometimes comic, sometimes pathetic, sometimes desperate—between the inevitability of losing in life and the […]

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March 14, 2018 at 2:55 pmResearch

Century-old Ellis Gets Sustainable, Accessible Make-Over

New entrance to Ellis will open to a central, welcoming lobby. Courtesy of
Champlin Architecture.

By Lori Bauer Architects are turning the inside of Ellis Hall from a maze of offices and classrooms into a welcoming learning space. Students and visitors entering a newly renovated Ellis Hall in early 2019 will be greeted by a new first-floor lobby that provides a central administrative hub as […]

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March 12, 2018 at 11:43 amUncategorized

Yoong Publishes Two Poems in ‘The Underground’

Regina Yui Jien Yoong

  Regina Yoong, a doctoral student in English literature, has recently published two poems with The Underground, a New York-based literary journal. Yoong’s poems, “Hydrangea” and “Brother Riley Takes a Bow,” appear in the 15th issue of The Underground. The bi-annual journal describes itself as “a literary bazaar” that “is […]

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February 8, 2018 at 2:53 pmIn the News Students in the News