Visiting Writers Series, fall 2000

Tony Earley is the first speaker of the Fall 2000 Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by the Department of English. All events are free and open to the public.

* Tony Earley, Monday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m., Wilson 126. Tony Earley is a member of the Vanderbilt University Department of English and the author of Here We Are in Paradise, a book of stories, and Jim the Boy, a novel. His essays and stories have appeared in Esquire and The New Yorker. A book of his essays titled Somehow Form a Family, is forthcoming from Algonquin Press.

* Michelle Boisseau, Monday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m., Wilson 126. Michelle Boisseau is the author of two books of poetry, No Private Life, published by Vanderbilt University Press, and Understory, winner of the Morse Poetry Prize from Northeastern University Press. She is also co-author of Writing Poems.

* Mebh McGuckian, Thursday, Oct. 5, 8 p.m., Wilson 126. Mebh McGuckian, a poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the author of numerous books of poetry, including On Ballycastle Beach, Captain Lavender and Selected Poems: 1978-1994.

* Ellen Bryant Voigt, Monday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m., Wilson 126. Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of five books of poetry, Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees and Kyrie. She has also published a book of essays on the art of poetry entitled The Flexible Lyric.

* Walter Sullivan, Monday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m., Wilson 126. Walter Sullivan has been a member of the Vanderbilt University English Department for more than 50 years. He is the author of the novels The Long, Long Love, Sojourn of a Stranger, and A Time to Dance, and a memoir, Allen Tate: A Recollection. His books of essays include Death By Melancholy and In Praise of Blood Sports, and he has edited The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South.

For more information, contact Mark Jarman at 322-2541.