On Tuesday, March 27, Dr. Kunkel's ENG 386/486 Poetry Writing class welcomed Dr. Hadara Bar-Nadav to read at the local coffee shop Pronto. The class had read her newest book, The New Nudity, a few weeks before and written odes inspired by her poems. The night of the reading, the coffee shop was packed and students listened attentively to her work with copies of her book in hand. After the reading, Dr. Bar-Nadav answered questions from the crowd, then signed books--the reading lasted more than two hours! We thank Dr. Bar-Nadav, an associate professor of poetry at University of Missouri-Kansas City, for making the trip and inspiring our undergraduate writers!
On March 7-10, Dr. Kunkel and MWSU senior Sara Brown traveled to Tampa, FL, to attend the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. Together they staffed a table in the conference bookfair for MWSU's national literary journal, The Mochila Review, for which Dr. Kunkel is editor-in-chief and Sara is managing editor. They passed out more than 300 flyers, sold issues, and connected with four previous contributors, some who are now graduate students in creative writing. They had a wonderful, exhausting time!
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