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October 26, 2023: Michael Collier, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Oct. 1, 2023— October 26, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Michael Collier, Poetry Michael Collier is the author of eight books of poems, among them, The Missing Mountain: New & Selected Poems and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Collier has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two National...
October 12, 2023: Jamil Jan Kochai, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Sep. 28, 2023—October 12, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Jamil Jan Kochai, Fiction Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, winner of the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize and a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. His debut novel, 99 Nights in Logar, was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway...
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...
The Drake Lecture Series: Professor Kathryn Yusoff
Apr. 20, 2023—The Vanderbilt Department of English presents the Spring 2023 Drake Lecture on Apr. 21st at 3:15pm in the Main Library 4th Floor Community Room. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there! “Inhuman Memory” with Professor Kathryn Yusoff, visiting from Queen Mary University of London. If the earth...
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...
The Stirling Lecture Series: Elleza Kelley
Mar. 27, 2023—The English Graduate Student Association presents the Spring 2023 Stirling Lecture: “Train Songs: An Echolocology”, a talk by Elleza Kelly, Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. This will be Friday, 3/31, at 1:30pm in Kissam C210. In this talk, Professor Kelley will present new work from her book project that grapples...
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...
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy’s 2023 Poetry Contest Open
Feb. 15, 2023—The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy is open for poetry submissions from students currently enrolled in any Tennessee college or university. This is in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Department of English and MFA Program in Creative Writing. Submissions are due by midnight CT on March 15, 2023. More info can be found here.
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...