Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil of the Department of English, was named in Huffington Post’s 2013 Top 200 Advocates for American Poetry. Other notables on the list include Garrison Keillor, Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray, and several U.S. Poet Laureates, including W.S. Merwin, Billy Collins, and Rita Dove.
For a complete list of the Top 200 Advocates for American Poetry: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/the-top-200-advocates-for_b_3750440.html.
Nezhukumatathil recently served as the poetry judge for The Journal's national poetry contest and was the subject of a featured interview in the Spring 2013 issue of the magazine. To read the interview, go to: http://thejournalmag.org/archives/3827.
In Aug. 11 to 16, Nezhukumatathil joined acclaimed writers Joy Harjo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Sapphire as poetry faculty for The Omega Institute's Summer Poetry Festival held in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
