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Roger Paas, William H. Laird Professor of German and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus has published a two-volume catalog of popular prints issued by an influential Nuremberg publisher in the early seventeenth century, Balthasar Caymox of Nuremberg: Early Modern German Print Publishers: Popular Prints in the Seventeenth Century. This catalog is the second of a four-part set, the first having appeared in 2020.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, emerita, joined D. E. Green, Diane LeBlanc (St. Olaf), and Stanley Kusunoki, in a Thursday Night Poetry Reading at Content Bookstore March 12, 2026. She also participated in a poetry reading in Bemidji at the Four Pines Bookstore, as one of four poets for the Agates IndyBookStore Tour, March 21, 2026.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, participated, along with 25 other local poets, in Words to Meet the Moment at the Grand Theater, on January 18. Her poem, “Against Fascism,” is included in the chapbook Words to Meet the Moment: Poetry Against Fascism (Content Bookstore, 2026). Three other poems, “Vigil,” “Burrowing,” and “Death Is Close” were part of a special exhibit and reading, When the World Shows a Wound, Poetry Shows a Light at the Historic Chateau Theater in Rochester, on February 10. Boling was one of six poets who read, “Bonanza,” as part of the Agates Independent Bookstore Tour, at Content Bookstore, on February 5. Poems: “How To Use Glue,” “One Thousand Four Hundred,” “Do Not Panic Organize…Resist Like It’s 1938,” “Pin the Tail,” “A Violent Fall,” “On Tyranny” published by Shipwreckt Press as a free Flip Book and a print version of Lost Lake Folk Opera. Special Issue: United We Write V. 10. 2025/2026. Her poem, “That Sleep of Death,” is in ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Rising Up, edited by Ian Graham Leask (Calumet Press, 2026) and she was one of many poets who read March 1 at Eat My Words in the launch of the collection.

Susan Jaret McKinstry, Helen F. Lewis Professor of English, Emerita, had her poem “Thin Ice,” included in ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Rising Up, edited by Ian Graham Leask (Calumet Press, 2026); and her poem “Last Word” is in Words to Meet the Moment: Poetry Against Fascism (Content Bookstore, 2026). She also published “Seasoning” and “Lazarus” in Orchards Poetry Journal (Winter 2024 and Winter 2025 issues), and “On Balance” in Red Wing Poet/Artist Collaboration (2025). Her review essay of William Morris on Socialism, edited by Florence Boos, was published in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies.

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, emeritus, published an entry on the philosophy of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, titled, “Dge lugs,” in the Brill Encyclopedia of Buddhism (vol. III, part 1). He also published a piece about a former Carleton visiting professor and friend to many at the College, titled, “Sudharshan Seneviratne: A Personal Appreciation,” in the journal Ancient Lanka (vol. 4, 2025).

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, has published two poems, “Downsizing” and “Sunrise Chair Banana,” in Willows Wept Review’s Issue 39 (Winter 2026). Troy Urquist, editor of Willows Wept Review, has nominated her poem, “Lighting the Cathedral,” from the 2025 summer issue for a Pushcart Prize.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, has published three poems, “Greetings,” “Guernica Redux,” and “A Waning Moon,” in Pennsylvania Poetry Society’s annual anthology, Poetry 2025.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, was invited to read several of her poems for the theme “Drama” at the Chateau Theater for the program Bright Lights November 13 in Rochester. Also, she was invited by Danny Klecko and Erica Christ, to be one of six performers at Cheap Theater, at Black Forest Inn, on the theme of Bridges, November 15 in Minneapolis.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, along with D. E. Green, led the Agates Reading at Fair Trade Books on October 18, where she read her poem published in the League of MN Poets’ annual journal, Agates, as well as other poems from her recently published collection, Here Beyond Small Wonders. Boling and Green, also attended the League of MN Poets Fall Conference, October 31-November 2, where they ran and shared their poems at the morning Read-Arounds.

Tim Lloyd, Class of 1941 Professor of Art and the Liberal Arts, emeritus, has a retrospective solo exhibit at the Northfield Arts Guild Gallery titled, “Work, so far.” The jewelry and vessel pieces span time from the late 1950s until the present. The exhibit is running until November 6.

Gregory Blake Smith, Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts, emeritus, published a novella, Estrangement, in the Alaska Quarterly Review.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, gave a poetry reading from her collections, Here Beyond Small Wonders and We Look West, at the Arts Center in St Peter, MN, along with Jana Bouma and John Reinhard. Her poem, “Bonanza” has been published in Agates, an annual publication by the League of Minnesota Poets. Boling emceed, along with Doug Green, the poetry-art program for Echoes and Shadows, September 18th. She also read her poems, “Red Prairie” and “House on a Hill,” which was accepted for the event.