Poetry and Prose: M. Jimmie Killingsworth (October 24, 2011)
Channel: University of Houston Libraries
Date: 2011-11-04

M. Jimmie Killingsworth is Professor of English at Texas A&M and the author or co-author of eleven books and over fifty scholarly articles and chapters, including Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America (with Jacqueline Palmer, 1992), which won the NCTE Award for Best Book of the Year in Scientific and Technical Communication, and Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics (2004). He has also published general-audience essays on the natural world and the human experience of place, including Reflections of the Brazos Valley (2007, photographs by D. Gentry Steele) and Going Back to Galveston: Nature, Funk, and Fantasy in a Favorite Place (2011, photographs by Geoff Winningham).