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A Slant of Light

Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
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Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of Bucknell Hall for the Stadler Center and today it is one of the most beautiful and distinguished buildings and centers on campus. He was largely responsible for the creation of Bucknell University Press. Jack Wheatcroft's life and the evolution of Bucknell University in the twentieth century are inextricable. He was formative in helping to create and nurture a community of artists and intellectuals that helped to propel Bucknell into national prominence. Over fifty years, Jack Wheatcroft published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and plays. The essays in this festschrift, by former students (who have gone on to be writers and teachers themselves), colleagues, and friends are a testimony to an extraordinary teacher, writer, innovator, and trailblazer in creating a community and infrastructure of literary culture at a distinguished liberal arts college.
Acknowledgements Foreword Peter Balakian and Bruce Smith 1 Jack Wheatcroft Philip Roth 2 Jack Wheatcroft, In Memoriam Betsy Sholl 3 "History Became the Words": Trans/Scribing Conscience in John Wheatcroft's Answering Fire Cynthia Hogue 4 Collections of Stories, Years Later John Ramsay 5 Remembering John Wheatcroft Matthew Stevenson 6 Sundays Tom Gardner Images of Jack, Figures 1-4 7 Dear Katherine Jane Maas 8 Remembering Jack Gary Sojka 9 Memories of Jack Wheatcroft Jan Balakian 10 Jack Wheatcroft Dennis O'Brien 11 Marginalia Teresa Leo 12 Bucknell's Boy of Summer Kurt Landefeld Images of Jack, Figures 5-8 13 Jack Philip Brady 14 Rhyming Forward and Back Dierdre O'Connor 15 Jack Wheatcroft and The Stadler Center for Poetry Anne Rogers Poliakoff 16 Jack, Some Scenes Peter Balakian 17 Jack Wheatcroft: Recreant at Lewisburg Bruce Smith 18 Late Afternoon, Bucknell Hall Shara McCallum Published Works of John Wheatcroft About the Contributors
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