{"id":277,"date":"2019-06-11T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2023-05-03T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T20:19:24","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Boyd Benson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Boyd Benson, founding editor of the WSU undergraduate journal LandEscapes<\/em>, passed away from cancer in November 2018. He had been living and writing in Everett, Washington, where he grew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999, Boyd helped found LandEscapes<\/em>, an arts journal for and by WSU students. He was the first editor. His good humor, hard work, and sense of community helped get the magazine and our Creative Writing Program up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyd spent a decade at WSU as a student and teacher of writing while he worked occasional shifts as a prep cook at a diner in Lewiston, Idaho. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English and his master\u2019s degree in rhetoric and composition at WSU. A gifted guitar player, Boyd described himself as a frustrated rock musician. He began his poetry studies under the late Linda Kittell, another fine WSU poet. He later earned his master of fine arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University, where he studied with the poet Marvin Bell, who honored Boyd\u2019s work by publishing his book The Owl\u2019s Ears<\/em> in the Lost Horse Press New Poets series (2007), for which Bell is series editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, Boyd won the Jeanne Lohman Poetry Prize, an award that recognizes the work of poets around the state of Washington. Boyd\u2019s poetry was published in the Iowa Review<\/em> and many other journals. Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken (2012) published his poem, \u201cThe Department of Licensing,\u201d on her website, The Far Field<\/em>, which highlighted the best poetry by Washington writers during her time as poet laureate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyd had an ironic, sharp, and self-deprecating wit that often exposed uncomfortable truths. In his third-person author\u2019s biography, he wrote of himself, \u201cSince poetry has little or no economic value in a capitalist society, he believes in it highly.\u201d Boyd Benson was 57. \u2013Peter Chilson<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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Virginia Hyde<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Virginia Hyde passed away on January 2, 2019. She was a professor who specialized in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century British and Irish literature. She was also interested in Arthurian literature and graphic arts in literature. Virginia earned her doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and taught in the English department at WSU for 34 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her career, she authored The Risen Adam: D.H. Lawrence\u2019s Revisionist Typology<\/em> (Penn State UP, 1992) and edited the Cambridge Edition of Lawrence\u2019s Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays<\/em> (Cambridge UP, 2009). She authored or edited four other books, guest-edited literary journals, and published dozens of essays in journals and books, including the MLA \u201cTeaching Authors\u201d series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wrote about George Eliot, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, W.B. Yeats, Lawrence and his circle, W.H. Auden, Franz Kafka, Florence Farr, and others. In 2005, she received the Harry T. Moore Award for lifetime achievement in her field from the D.H. Lawrence Society.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}