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The Coastal Carolina English Department is pleased toannounce the winner of the 11th Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series Contest.

The final judge, poet Nicky Beer of Denver, Colorado,selected "The Human Particle" by Angela Pilson as the winner. Angelawill receive a $100.00 gift card to the Coastal Carolina bookstore and 25copies of the broadside, which will be produced by the end of the semester inan edition of 100 numbered copies. Please join me in congratulating Angela forher winning poem.

Beer also awarded honorable mention to SarahSexton's "Glass Menagerie Metamorphosis" and CynthiaSchoch's "Displaced."

Commenting on her selection of "The Human Particle,"Beer said this:

What I admire about this poem isits willingness to take on "big picture" philosophical ideas abouthuman mortality. Yet these ideas are explored with a wry kind of wit, ratherthan dogma or melodrama. There's a fine marriage of intellectualcomplexity and lyric restraint here, wonderfully exemplified by the speaker'sobservation: "they will carbon-date us / into time periods / we willnever know the names of."

"The Human Particle" will be available in thenext few weeks. Those wishing to acquire a copy of the broadside shouldcontact Dan Albergotti in theDepartment of English (albergot@coastal.edu, 843-349-2420).

The deadline for the 12th contest in the Paul Rice serieswill be announced early in the spring semester 2012.

We thank everyone who participated in thissemester's contest and invite all Coastal students who will be registeredin the spring to consider submitting a poem next semester.

About the contest judge:

Nicky Beer's first book of poems, The Diminishing House, was published byCarnegie Mellon University Press in 2010. She has received a literaturefellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowshipfrom the Poetry Foundation, and a Discovery/TheNation award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado Denver.

Reminder:

Previous broadsides in the series are still available. Those wishing to obtain copies should contact Dan Albergotti in the Department of English(albergot@coastal.edu, 843-349-2420). A small requested donation of $1.00 percopy goes directly to support the continuation of the Paul Rice PoetryBroadside Series. Thank you for your support.

To view recent broadside in the series, click here.

Coastal Carolina senior Isaac Dusenberry presented his research at a Hemingway symposium in Columbia on November 11.

The symposium, at the University of South Carolina's Hollings Special Collections Library, featured talks by Hemingway scholars Dr. C. Edgar Grissom and Prof. James L. W. West, and research presentations by students from USC Beaufort, Coastal, Columbia College, and USC Columbia.

Dusenberry's talk, on Hemingway's story 'Big Two-hearted River,' had been nominated by Dr. Daniel Turner, of Coastal's English Department.

The event marked the tenth anniversary of USC Libraries' Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway, and included a new exhibition of first editions and manuscripts from the collection. The exhibition, at Hollings Library, runs through February 29 (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., except over Christmas break). For more information about the exhibition, see www.library.sc.edu/news/index.php?post_id=681, or contact 803-777-3847.