December issue of “Arkansas
Review" available now

Jan. 8, 2007--The Department of English and Philosophy at Arkansas State University announces the publication of the December 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 Delta region through academic articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, visual art, and reviews.

The December issue features “Listen,” a sequel to the celebrated novel Talk, by Memphis bookstore owner and previous Arkansas Review contributor, Corey Mesler. Ole Miss graduate Anna Baker also has a story in this issue, while Arkansas natives Ed Madden and Jo McDougall contribute poems. UCA professor Raymond-Jean Frontain examines the fiction of Arkansas writer Peter McGehee, and with the permission of the McGehee family, presents an original story by McGehee.

Members of the ASU community who contributed to this issue of the journal are book reviewers Brady Banta, Cherisse Jones-Branch, Derek Allen Clements, William Clements, Gregory Hansen, and Michael P. Spikes.

An individual copy of the December issue is $7.50. A year’s subscription (three issues) costs $20.00. 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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