Kevin Boyle

The Third Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival, which honors the work of Hikmet, the Turkish poet, has invited Kevin Boyle to read a few poems on April 17th in Cary, NC.

Luke Johnson '07, an English major who graduated in 2007, has published a book of poems with New York Quarterly Books.

Alumnus Sam Slaughter, a municipal beat reporter for Greater Media Newspapers in New Jersey, recently won a third-place award from the New Jersey Press Association for weekly feature writing. Slaughter, a 2009 graduate, majored in English, anthropology and sociology at Elon.

Kevin Boyle's poem "The Lullaby of History" has been included in a book called Literary Trails of North Carolina, published by UNC Press.

Kevin Boyle presented a paper at the Philological Conference on the use of the Petrarchan sonnet in the Northern Irish context, focusing on poems by Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.