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(4/14/2022) Vievee Francis, poetry reading: 7 PM, Buttrick Hall 101
Apr. 7, 2022—Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2016), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for...
Students, Submit Poems for 2022 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize!
Mar. 14, 2022—All Vanderbilt students are eligible for the Academy of American Poets’ Student Poetry Prize. For information and submission guidelines, click here.
Research by Jay Clayton and Team Traces the Portrayal of Genetics in 100 Years of Television and Film
Mar. 1, 2022—Check out this post, featured on VU’s “Research News” page, detailing the findings of a team including Jay Clayton (director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, and faculty member of the Evolutionary Studies Initiative) and graduate research fellow Ethan Gibbons (M.A. ’17) on the...
POETRY CONTEST: Unity & Democracy
Feb. 9, 2022—Vanderbilt students are invited to express how they feel about unity and democracy through a new poetry contest. The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy is holding the contest in partnership with the Department of English and Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. The theme is “what unity through American democracy means to...
(4/7/2022) Aimee Bender, fiction reading: 7 PM, Virtual
Jan. 8, 2022— Aimee Bender is the author of six books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of...
(3/31/2022) Mark Jarman (faculty), poetry reading & Lorraine López (faculty), fiction reading: 7 PM, Buttrick Hall 101
Jan. 7, 2022—Mark Jarman was born in 1952 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1974 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1976. Jarman is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Heronry (2017), Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems (2011), Epistles (2007), The Black...
(3/17/2022) Rebecca Bernard, fiction reading & Cara Dees, poetry reading: 7 PM, Buttrick Hall 101
Jan. 6, 2022—Rebecca Bernard’s debut collection of stories won the 2021 Non/Fiction prize from The Journal and is forthcoming from Ohio State’s Mad Creek Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Juked, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Fiction from the University of North Texas and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Her work received notable...
(2/24/2022) Margaret Renkl (visiting faculty), nonfiction reading: 7 PM, Face Masks Required, Buttrick 101
Jan. 5, 2022—Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, which was published in July 2019. Her next book, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South, was published in September 2021. Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays...
(2/17/2022) Lisa Russ Spaar, poetry reading: 7 PM, Face Masks Required, Buttrick 101
Jan. 4, 2022—Lisa Russ Spaar is the author/editor of over twelve books of poetry and criticism, including, most recently, More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems (2020) and Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems (November 2021). Her debut novel, Paradise Close, will appear in April 2022. Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, and...
(2/10/2022) Brandon Taylor, fiction reading: 7 PM, Face Masks Required, Buttrick 101
Jan. 4, 2022—Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, as well as The National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award. His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader,...