Three English faculty at UC Clermont College honored | Arts & Culture

BATAVIA TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - Three English professors at UC's Clermont College have been honored for their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction recently.

Assistant Professor of English Phoebe Reeves’ poem "The Folly of Mercutio in a Pacifist Town," first published in The American Poetry Journal, and reprinted at Verse Daily (http://www.versedaily.org/2011/pacifisttown.shtml) has been nominated by Editor J.P. Dancing Bear for a Pushcart Prize. Winning literature from a number of different genres is published in an anthology.

Joel Peckham, assistant professor of English, has received two recent accolades for his work. His essay, "Please Take What You Want," was listed as a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays 2011, edited by Edwidge Dandicot.  His recent book, Resisting Elegy: On Grief and Recovery, was a finalist for the New Rivers MVP prize and will appear in hardcover from Academy Chicago Publishers this spring.

Mike Hampton, visiting assistant professor of English, has recently had his work nominated for inclusion in the anthology Best American Short Stories 2012. The journal Atticus Review, which published his short story "Swimmers" earlier last year, made the nomination. The story is online at the following link: http://atticusreview.org/swimmers/

“We are very fortunate to have this caliber of faculty who not only teach at UC Clermont College but are continually working on their craft and publishing their work,” said Kim Jacobs-Beck, chair of the English Languages and Fine Arts Department.

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