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September 28, 2023: Patricia Smith, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Sep. 14, 2023—September 28, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Patricia Smith, Poetry Patricia Smith, recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, is the author of Unshuttered; Incendiary Art (winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the LA Times Book Prize, the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Shoulda Been Jimi...
September 21, 2023: Sigrid Nunez, fiction reading – 7 PM, Vanderbilt Bookstore
Sep. 7, 2023—September 21, 2023, Vanderbilt Bookstore: Sigrid Nunez, Fiction Sigrid Nunez has published eight novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Friend, and, most recently, What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her new novel, The Vulnerables, will be published by Riverhead Books in November 2023. The Friend, a New...
English Department’s Jeong-Oh Kim Wins Teaching Award
Apr. 12, 2023—Congratulations to Jeong-Oh Kim, the winner of this year’s Ellen Gregg Ingall’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching! The final selection for the award—which was endowed by the Ingalls Foundation of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965—is made by the Chancellor on the basis of nominations made by undergraduates of all schools and colleges. Jeong-Oh joins a...
Carolyn Forché, Poetry Reading – April 13, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Apr. 6, 2023—♦ April 13, Buttrick 101: Carolyn Forché, poetry Carolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. She is the author of five books of poetry. Her most recent collection, In the Lateness of the World (Penguin, 2020), was a 2021 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American Book Award. Her memoir, What You...
Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Fiction Reading – March 23, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Mar. 9, 2023—♦ March 23, Buttrick 101: Moriel Rothman-Zecher, fiction | Co-sponsored by the Department of Jewish Studies Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the Worldand Sadness Is a White Bird, for which he was given the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ Honor and named a winner of the Ohioana Book Award and...
Newly Published: Akshya Saxena’s Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Feb. 23, 2023—Congratulations to Akshya Saxena on the publication of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (University of California Press), a book for which she served as coeditor. The volume “introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes...
VU Students Invited to Submit for the 2023 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Feb. 1, 2023—The Vanderbilt English and Creative Writing Department is happy to announce that submissions are open for the 2023 Academy of American Poets’ “Student Poetry Prize.” Please follow the guidelines from the flyer below and submit up to three poems to rene.colehour@vanderbilt.edu by March 1, 2023. Click here to download a printable PDF copy of the...
Allison Schachter a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies
Jan. 19, 2023—Allison Schachter’s monograph Jewish Women Writing Modernity, 1919-1939 is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies. A link to purchase the book can be found here. Congratulations Dr. Allison Schachter!
Major Jackson Named New Host of Daily Poetry Podcast “The Slowdown”
Jan. 12, 2023—Starting January 24, Major Jackson, Vanderbilt Professor of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program, will take over the hosting duties of the daily poetry podcast, “The Slowdown.” He will replace Ada Limón, who is leaving to become the next U.S. poet laureate. For more information on the announcement and podcast, click...
Jill Bialosky, Poetry Reading – March 2, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Jan. 7, 2023—♦March 2, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Jill Bialosky, poetry Jill Bialosky‘s newest volume of poetry Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, four critically acclaimed novels, including The Prize, and most recently, The Deceptions, and two...