Closing of "The Unit For Contemporary Literature"

ISU's English Department has closed the Unit for Contemporary Literature. The Unit was home of production for American Book Review, Fiction Collective 2, Spoon River Poetry Review, and LitLine, including that site's various supported projects. It supported the Illinois Literary Network, sponsored literary readings, and was a major component of ISU's publishing program. It also employed regular zine contributors Brooke Nelson and Jeremy Coulter, among others. We have no information yet as to how the Unit's closing will play out, except that obviously this is a major loss. (See Curtis White's ISU English Department Chronology). We at fkal'b have begun work on a special issue focused on this closing, and will post new information here as we receive it.