Internships
The Department of English has a strong record of placing writing and literature students in exciting internships. Students have worked with the following organizations:

• Evansville Business magazine
• Elle magazine (in New York)
• Evansville City View magazine
• Evansville Living magazine
• Marvel Comics Publications (in New York)
• Performing Songwriter magazine (in Nashville)
• Writer’s Digest magazine (in Ohio)
• The Evansville Review
• Senior Literary Journal
• Archaeology magazine (in Washington, D.C.)
• Indiana Business magazine
• Billboard magazine (in Nashville)
• Hoosier Parent magazine
• Evansville Courier & Press
• Arts Indiana magazine (in Indianapolis)
• Disney Corporation (in Los Angeles)
• Patchwork Central
• Story Press (in Ohio)
• Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science
• WCPO/Channel 9 (in Ohio)
• Indianapolis Children’s Museum
• News4U
• Various advertising agencies
• Various law offices

Publications

The Evansville Review is an award-winning literary journal produced and published by our students. It includes poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews by a wide range of authors, from students to Nobel Prize recipients. Past issues have included work by Arthur Miller, John Updike, Joseph Brodsky, Elia Kazan, Edward Albee, Willis Barnstone, Shirley Ann Grau, and X. J. Kennedy. Poems which first appeared in The Evansville Review were selected to be included in The Best American Poetry 2001 and in The Pushcart Prize XXVI, 2002. For more information, visit evansvillereview.evansville.edu.

Measure: An Annual Review of Formal Poetry is a journal dedicated to publishing the best metrical, English-language verse from both the United States and abroad. Measure was begun in the spring of 2005 by Professors Paul Bone and Rob Griffith to renew and sustain interest in formal poetry. For more information, visit measure.evansville.edu.

The Richard Wilbur Poetry Award is a prestigious national competition for book-length poetry collections. The author of the winning manuscript receives $1,000, and the manuscript is published by the University of Evansville Press. In recent years, such distinguished American poets as Dana Goia, Rachel Hadas, and Wyatt Prunty have served as the competition's final judge.

The Willis Barnstone Prize in Translation is a department-sponsored, international competition of unpublished poetry translations from any language and time period. The contest is named in honor of the renowned poet and translator Willis Barnstone, who has served as the final judge for our first two competitions. The award-winning poems are published in The Evansville Review.