Publications
Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse, founded in 1960 by the poet Tom McGrath, has been in continuous publication for the last forty-three years. During that time, it has published some of the most important writers of the last half century, including John Updike, Raymond Carver, Jorie Graham, John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Ha Jin, W. P. Kinsella, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Charles Wright, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, James Tate, and Franz Wright, to name only a few. In our pages, you’ll find some of the finest writing being published today: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, Guggenheim fellows, NEA fellowship recipients, and authors with awards from the O. Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best American anthologies.
Illuminations --An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing
Seeking to provide new writers from around the world with a magazine in which their work could appear alongside the work of already established writers, Illuminations made its first appearance in Columbia, South Carolina in 1982 with poems by Seamus Heaney, Stephen Spender, and newcomer Sam Boone. Subsequently edited from England, Japan, and Tanzania, the magazine is once more back in South Carolina shedding light on new writing from around the world. Since 1997 the magazine has appeared annually with a mixture of themed and open issues, including mini-anthologies of South African poetry (1998), Vietnamese poetry (2000), Cuban and Latin American poetry (2001), and tribute issues to the late Sir Stephen Spender (1997) and to South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus (2004). Although specifically committed to poetry, Illuminations has also featured interviews (with Athol Fugard in 1998; with Tim O’Brien in 2000), movie reviews (by Caryl Phillips in 2002), and arresting artwork and photography (a David Hockney portrait of Spender, photographs of Vietnam and Cuba by Craig Barber, of Afghanistan by Simon Norfolk, of the American South-west by Michelle Van Parys). Each issue, in short, carries an extraordinary, highly eclectic range of material.
Miscellany
The College's literary magazine is published during the spring semester each year. See an administrative assistant at 26 Glebe Street for more information about participating in Miscellany as a staff member and/or submission requirements and deadlines.
The Glebe Street Hacks
The Glebe Street Hacks is a publication of the English Club that appears each semester. It includes coverage of news that affects students and faculty in the English department; information about department-sponsored events and English Club activities; opportunities for student research and internships; and the work of individual students and faculty.
A Guide to Freshman English
The department offers this guide to students of ENGL 101 and 102.