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The Second Year Conference
Aug. 30, 2022—Join us on Friday, Sept. 23 from 10am – 1:30pm in Kissam C210 for the English Department’s annual Second Year Conference. This conference is a showcase of works by the 2nd-year PhD students, and this year will feature 3rd-year students as well. Lunch will be provided. Please REGISTER HERE, and reach out to Connor Abram...
MFA Third-Year Reading – Thursday April 28 at 7PM
Apr. 26, 2022—Come support the third-year MFA students at the student reading, this Thursday, April 28 at 7 PM in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium. This year’s reading will feature work by: Lara Casey, Hayes Cooper, Jessica Lee, Yi Jiang, Kiyoko Reidy, and Pallavi Wakharkar. Click here for the downloadable flyer.
Embody and Catalyze: A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers
Apr. 16, 2022—The English department at Vanderbilt University is happy to announce “Embody and Catalyze: A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers”! The conference will honor the career and contributions of Hortense Spillers, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor and Distinguished Research Professor (Emerita) and will take place on Thursday May 19th and Friday May 20th, 2022. Registration required. Please...
(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.
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...