{"id":4124,"date":"2015-01-16T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2015-01-16T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:24:56","slug":"professor-mcclung-nominated-for-pushcart-prize%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/professor-mcclung-nominated-for-pushcart-prize%e2%80%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor McClung Nominated for Pushcart Prize\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/01\/WOW-2014-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4125 alignleft\" alt=\"professor mcclung\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/01\/WOW-2014-003-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to Kathleen McClung, adjunct professor of English, for receiving a 2014 Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry.\u00a0 The editors of the <em>Marin Poetry Center Anthology \u00a0<\/em>selected her sonnet, \u201cFor the Man at Macy\u2019s Lurking in Swimwear\u201d for the prestigious national award program. Winners will be announced in March and published in 2016.\u00a0 More information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushcartprize.com\">www.pushcartprize.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Pushcart nomination, Prof. McClung won first prize in the 2014 Bay Area Poets Coalition contest for her villanelle, \u201cGilbert and Ed Washing the Wheelchairs, Telegraph Avenue Coin-Op,\u201d and first prize in the 2014 Illinois State Poetry Society formal poetry category for her sonnet, \u201cThe Elder.\u201d Her sestina, \u201cAnticipators,\u201d received an International Publication Prize in the Fall\/Winter 2014 issue of <em>Atlanta Review.<\/em> She was invited to present at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville in October and served on a panel with writers Ed Madden and Don Johnson titled \u201cAlluring Threats of the Everyday: Three Poets.\u201d More information about her poetry is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathleenmcclung.com\">www.kathleenmcclung.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. McClung has taught composition, literature, and creative writing classes at Skyline College for nineteen years. For the past five years she has also served as event coordinator for Skyline\u2019s annual spring literary event celebrating women writers, \u201cWOW! Voices Now.\u201d This year\u2019s gathering, scheduled for February 21 in Building 6, is free and open to the public and features novelist Natalie Baszile, author of the award-winning <em>Queen Sugar<\/em>, and poet Eileen Malone, author of two collections of poetry, <em>Letters with Taloned Claws<\/em> and <em>I Should Have Given Them Water<\/em>. RSVP by February 10 to <a href=\"mailto:mcclungk@smccd.edu\">mcclungk@smccd.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kathleen McClung, adjunct professor of English, for receiving a 2014 Pushcart Prize nomination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}