The team awaits a decision at noon today from the NCAA selection committee about its inclusion in the field for the Division III women's soccer championships.ĭistinguished Nursing Alumna Cheryl Reinking '87, chief nursing officer at El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley, discussed the hospital's use of artificial intelligence to anticipate risks to patients. The Illinois Wesleyan women's soccer team advanced to the finals of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin tournament before falling to Wheaton in the championship game.

Inspired by her firsthand experience with refugees while studying abroad in Germany last year, Illinois Wesleyan senior Hsin-Jou (Lily) Chang '18 is delving deeper into research that she hopes can assist in solving the economic assimilation puzzle. You can read more about the anthology here.News for and about the Illinois Wesleyan communityĬhang '18 Hopes Research Can Help Refugees Assimilate In other words, it really feels like “The Long Deployment” has earned its keep in the nearly five years since I wrote it.Īmerican Journal is a wonderful anthology, and I’m so grateful to be part of such a timely, compelling book. And, of course, the poem appears in my most recent collection, Dots & Dashes. Later, it was included in the anthology Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion. “The Long Deployment” was even turned into a short film through Todd Boss’s Motionpoems series (in the film, Grace Gummer–daughter of Meryl Street, gulp!–reads the poem).

I wrote it for The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume, the first of two anthologies that I edited with my dear friend Lindsay Lusby. But, before The Book of Scented Things was even published, the poem appeared as part of the Poem-A-Day Series offered through the Academy of American Poets. It’s a villanelle (an extra-long villanelle to mimic how long a deployment can sometimes feel) that brings together some of the things that most interest me: aroma, longing, and loneliness. Now, “The Long Deployment” has had an exciting life. Smith was editing a new poetry anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, and she wanted to include “The Long Deployment” as one of the fifty poems! I was stunned.

“The Long Deployment” Included in a New Poetry Anthology!ĭecem| Dots & Dashes, Miscellaneous Poetry Stuffīack in the rainy days of February, on a particularly gloomy Friday afternoon, I received a very unexpected email from Graywolf Press.

Dots & Dashes by Jehanne Dubrow