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Jerry Craven's Short Story

Jerry Craven has published 20 books including three collections of poetry. He has taught for five universities in three countries and has lived for extended periods of time in South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Currently he is Visiting Writer in Residence at Lamar University.

Time for Real Light

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Sherry Craven's Poetry

Sherry Craven has lived from Alaska to Georgia, Los Angeles to Washington D.C. but has called Texas home for the last 30 years. She has taught English, and Spanish in high school and English at Midland College and West Texas A & M University. Sherry recently retired and lives on Lake Sam Rayburn in the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.

She has published poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her poetry has appeared in online journals such as AmarolloBay and Muse2.

She has published flash fiction in Suddenly, and poetry in both English and Spanish in RiverSedge.  Her poetry has been in four editions of  New Texas, The Witness, Windhover, descant, El Locofoco, the Maverick Press, and The Texas Review. She has also read poetry for National Public Radio and several college campuses nationwide. Her work appears in the 2002 anthology, Texas in Poetry 2 and a creative piece of nonfiction in Writing on the Wind, a collection of essays by West Texas women writing about sense of place. She won the  Conference of College Teachers of English 2005 poetry award.

Selected Poems

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Peggy Pritchard Kulesz 's Essay

Peggy Pritchard Kulesz is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as faculty advisor to the UTA English Student Association. Dr. Kulesz is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, and she holds both a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in English from UTA. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and religion, pedagogical issues, and American women writers. She has presented numerous conference papers drawn from her research on Phoebe Cary, Anna Warner and Elizabeth Prentiss. Her article “Telling the Story: The Devotional Writing of Anna Warner and Elizabeth Prentiss” appears in Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  In April 2007, Dr. Kulesz received the UTA Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Transparent Teaching: A Pedagogy for Success

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Rebecca Dark's Essay

Rebecca Dark, an assistant professor of English at Dallas Baptist University, holds a Masters degree in Modern Literature from The University of Texas Arlington and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English there.  The primary focus of her studies is medieval and early modern British literature with an additional emphasis on gender theory.  She taught English for thirteen years in Texas public schools and spent eleven of those years at M. B. Lamar High School in Arlington.  For the past three years Professor Dark has taught a class for English education majors at DBU who are preparing for their competency tests including the TExES ELA 8-12 examination.

“Classic” Canons and Inclusion: Preparing Candidates for the TExES ELA 8-12 Test and the Classroom