Dept. of English and Philosophy publishes April issue of Arkansas Review

May 17, 2006 -- The Department of English and Philosophy at Arkansas State University has announced the publication of the April issue of “Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.”

Edited by a committee of faculty and graduate assistants, the magazine offers an interdisciplinary approach to the seven-state Mississippi River Delta region through academic articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art and reviews.

The April issue offers articles by University of Virginia professor Matthew Holden Jr., and ASU alum, Maj. James Dunivan.

Also featured in the issue is an interview with Rod Lorenzen, owner of Lorenzen & Co. Booksellers in Little Rock. Guy Lancaster, a student in the Heritage Studies Ph.D. program, conducted this interview, the fifth in an ongoing series with booksellers.

Fiction by Catherine Savage Brosman, M.O. Walsh and Darlin’ Neal appears, as does poetry by David Middleton and CL Bledsoe.

Other members of the ASU community who contributed to this issue of the journal are book reviewers Brady Banta, William Clements, Gregory Hansen, Cherisse Jones-Branch and ASU-Newport’s Joseph W. Campbell.

An individual copy of the April issue is $7.50. A year’s subscription (three issues) costs $20. Make checks payable to “ASU Foundation” with “Arkansas Review” on the memo line. Address to Arkansas Review, P.O. Box 1890, State University, AR 72467.

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