Professor Pineda’s Recent Honors

Jon Pineda’s poem “The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South” (featured on the Poetry Foundation’s website) has been selected by Minnesota State University, Mankato to be part of MSU’s 2016 National Poetry Month Video Project. His (fly fishing) poem “Rapidan Bestiary” was accepted for publication by Gray’s Sporting Journal.  Other new poems (“Rappahannock Bestiary” and “Smallmouth Bestiary”) will appear in the forthcoming issue of storySouth. Finally, his creative nonfiction essay “Circumference” recently appeared in the literary magazine Qu and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses).