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We're pleased to share the announcement that poet Matthew Cooperman has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2025. Matthew is the author of two Parlo...
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The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition series represents an attempt to foster a nationwide conversation—beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition—to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's journals.