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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.

Assistant professor Prudence Layne presented at the 35th annual National Council for Black Studies conference held March 16-19 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Feb. 25, Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, presented a paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, in Louisville, Ky.

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.

Two Elon University students have been named finalists for a 2011 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship awarded each year to college juniors with goals of working in education, government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, or elsewhere in public service.

Rebecca Pope-Ruark, assistant professor of English, published an article entitled "Know Thy Audience: Helping Students Engage a Threshold Concept Using Audience-Based Pedagogy" in the 5th anniversary issue of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.