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Poet Prageeta Sharma to join Vanderbilt Reading Series – February 19
Jan. 28, 2026—Thursday, February 19 Book-signing, 6:30 PM Reading, 7:00 PM Vanderbilt Special Collections Library 1101 19th Ave South Nashville, TN 37212 Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Onement Won (Wave Books, 2025) and Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019). Her honors and awards include a 2025 NEA Creative...
Mitchell S. Jackson to join Vanderbilt Reading Series – February 12 (new date)
Jan. 6, 2026—Thursday, February 12 Book Signing, 6:30 PM Reading, 7:00 PM Vanderbilt Special Collections Library 1101 19th Ave South Nashville, TN 37212 (Due to weather, this reading has been postponed from January 29.) Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing...
Creative Writing program hosts poets Didi Jackson and Patrick Paridee Samuel
Dec. 4, 2025—Vanderbilt’s Creative Writing Program hosted a salon on November 13 with assistant professor Didi Jackson and fellow poet Patrick Sharidee Samuel. They discussed their recent collections, My Infinity and And Another Thing. Following the salon, graduate and undergraduate students participated in a book-making workshop and produced their own work. For upcoming events, visit the...
Marie-Helene Bertino joins Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series
Nov. 14, 2025—Novelist and short story writer Marie-Helene Bertino joined the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series on November 6 with her novel Beautyland, an American Book Award winner and National Book Critics Circle finalist, which follows Adina Giorno, born with unusual perception to a single mother in Philadelphia. The arrival of a fax machine enables her...
Join us for English trivia and Fresh Mex – October 22
Oct. 21, 2025—
Join the Undergraduate Honor Council
Oct. 3, 2025—
Internship Search Party – October 1
Sep. 24, 2025—Wednesday, October 1 6:00 – 8:00 PM Divinity School 127 Want to learn more about finding internships appropriate for humanities majors? Alayna Hayes, Senior Director of the Career Center, will introduce successful search strategies! Dinner from Chipotle will be served.
Bryan Byrdlong (BA ’15) publishes debut collection of poetry
Sep. 16, 2025— Bryan Byrdlong’s Strange Flowers is a staggering debut that maps the lines and links between the living and undead, ritual and where the speaker belongs. Byrdlong’s exploration of the zombie, from the Caribbean to cocktails, marks what changes us, takes us out of ourselves, and...