I returned my students’ mid-terms yesterday, and we’re nearly finished with the Bhagavad Gita — both signs that the summer session is past its mid-point and drawing to a close.  This, along with the fact that my study currently looks like this –

– serves as a sign that it’s time I made an announcement: this will be my last class at Auburn University.  I’ve greatly enjoyed my time here at Auburn, and learned so much from my students, to whom I will always be grateful.  I’ve met some amazing people here and developed friendships that will last a lifetime.  I’ve been so lucky to have the opportunity to teach at Auburn, and I’m especially happy to have worked with the Alabama Writers’ Forum, the Sun Belt Writing Project,  and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities on outreach projects.

The time, though, has come for me to move on.  In the fall, I will join the English department at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, where I’ll serve as a visiting assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and as the poetry editor of The Georgetown Review.  I am absolutely ecstatic about this, and incredibly grateful for this opportunity, and, most of all, thrilled beyond thrilled that I’m going to be part of such a warm and wonderful department.

So, hooray!  And please forgive the lack of updates to come.  Just look at those boxes, and think of how many pairs of shoes I have, and think about how all of those beautiful shoes have to find their way into boxes before I leave for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and think of the fact that every time I pack a box, I spend most of my time getting the feline Gertrude Stein, who’s just jumped in the box, to jump out of the box without damaging its contents … Oh, dear.

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