A running joke that I have with my students is that I'm not vain about many things, but I am absolutely vain about my handwriting. As a child growing up in the Bronx, I learned calligraphy in public school art class. My father, a proud Caribbean man from the island of Grenada, was equally proud of his handwriting—he had the kind of signature you'd find on money—ornate, full of flourishes and curlicues. Like my father, I loved signing my name, practicing the loops of the lette

Allison Joseph, Professor and Director of the MFA Program at SIUC, not to mention editor of the university's graduate-level literary magazine, Crab Orchard Review, celebrated the written word in a number of in-person and online events November 19-20. Supported by her COR staff, new professors, alumni, and countless others, Allison successfully corralled " a sparkling few days of community building for the arts," says Dustin M. Hoffman, new Associate Professor of English Liter

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