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02/04 Visiting Writers Series: Timothy Donnelly
Jan. 22, 2021—February 4, 7PM CST | Click here to register Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book of poetry is The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019). His other collections include Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensezeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. With John...
02/10 LATS Spring Symposium: Fred Arroyo & Myriam Gurba
Jan. 21, 2021—February 10, 7PM CST | Click here to register The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series is partnered with Latina and Latino Studies (LATS) at Vanderbilt University to present the 2021 Spring Symposium: Writing to Live. Fred Arroyo is the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names:...
02/11 LATS Spring Symposium: Panel Discussion & Reading
Jan. 21, 2021—Panel Discussion: Fred Arroyo, Alex Espinoza, and Daisy Hernández | February 11, 3PM CST | Register for panel discussion Reading: Alex Espinoza and Daisy Hernández | February 11, 7PM CST | Register for reading The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series is partnered with Latina and Latino Studies (LATS) at Vanderbilt University to present...
02/25 Visiting Writers Series: Dana Johnson
Jan. 13, 2021—February 25, 7PM CST | Click here to register Dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark (Counterpoint, 2016). She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel Elsewhere, California. Both books were nominees for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award....
03/26 Visiting Writers Series: Simon Han & Lee Conell
Jan. 13, 2021—March 26, 7PM CDT | Click here to register Simon Han was born in Tianjin, China, and raised in various cities in Texas. He is author of Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead, 2020). His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Texas Observer, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, and LitHub. He has received awards...
04/08 Visiting Writers Series: Edward Hirsch
Jan. 13, 2021—April 8, 7PM CDT | Click here to register Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poetry, including Stranger By Night (2020), The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, and Gabriel: A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son. He has also published six books of prose, among them How to Read a Poem...