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Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt

Visiting Writers Series 2009-2010

 

Fall 2009

Date:  September 9, 2009
Time: 7 p.m.
Beth Bachmann, poetry, & Lorraine Lopez, fiction
Location: Wilson 126

Date:  September 23, 2009
Time: 7 p.m.
Honor Moore, poetry & memoir
Location:  Buttrick Hall 101

Date:  October 1, 2009
Time:  7 p.m.
Kevin Wilson, fiction
Location:     Buttrick Hall 101


Date:  October 13, 2009
Time:  7 p.m.
Adria Bernardi, fiction
Location:  Buttrick 102

Date:  October 28, 2009
Time:  7 pm
Phillis Levin, poetry
Location:  Buttrick 101

Date:  November 5, 2009
Time:  7 pm
Cornelius Eady with Alice Quinn, director of Poetry Society of America
Location:  Wilson 126

Date:  November 12, 2009
Time:  7 pm
Sherrie Flick, fiction
Location:  Buttrick Hall 101

Spring 2010



Date:  January 28, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Randall Kenan, fiction
Location:  Buttrick Hall 101

Date:  February 1, 2010
Time:  7:00 pm
Richard Katrovas, poetry
Location:  Buttrick 102


 

Date:  February 25, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Rebecca Seiferle, poetry
Location:  Buttrick Hall 101

Date:  March 18, 2010
Time:  7 pm
Bich Minh Nguyen, memoir
Location:  Buttrick 101

Date:  March 24, 2010
Time:  7 pm
Jean Valentine, poetry
Location:  Buttrick 101

Date:  April 12, 2010
Time:  7 pm
Suji Kim, poetry and Jill McCorkle, fiction
Location:  Wilson 126

 

Date:  April 20, 2010
Time:  7 pm
Ciaran Carson with Alice Quinn, director of Poetry Society of America
Location:  Wilson 126

 

For more information contact Margaret Quigley, Margaret.quigley@vanderbilt.edu, 322-6527

 

 

 

 


Commencement 2009

The Vanderbilt English Department Master of Fine Arts program graduated its second class this spring.  Fiction writers Bryn Chancellor, Meredith Gray, and Wade Ostrowski and poets Destiny Birdsong, Carrie Causey, and Michael Sarnowski all participated in commencement, along with creative writing faculty members Kate Daniels, Tony Earley, Rick Hilles, Mark Jarman, Lorraine Lopez, and Nancy Reisman. 


2009 MFAs (from left) Destiny Birdsong, Michael Sarnowski, Wade Ostrowski, Carrie Causey, Meredith Gray, and Bryn Chancellor

Tony Earley and Mark Jarman Named in Best of Nashville 2008

http://www.nashvillescene.com/bestof/2008/section/entertainment-87472/



Michael Sarnowski Publications

 

The Honey Land Review will publish Michael Sarnowski’s poem “On Writing, On Life” in its November 2008 issue.  The Adirondack Review will publish his poem "Thawing the Bones" in its winter issue.  Michael is a second-year student in the M.F.A. program.


Carrie Causey Publication

 

Poet and National Book Award winner Jean Valentine has chosen the poem "We Want a Farm" by second-year MFA student Carrie Causey for Ploughshares. 


Tony Earley's new book, The Blue Star, reviewed in the New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/books/06masl.html



Best New Poets 

Beth Bachmann's poem "Nesting" has been included in Best New Poets 2007 edited by Natasha Tretheway.


Best American Poetry

Poems by Kate Daniels and Mark Jarman were chosen by Charles Wright for The Best American Poetry 2008, edited by Charles Wright and David Lehman.  Scribner will publish the anthology in September 2008.  Wright chose Kate Daniels' poem "Homage to Calvin Spotswood, " published in storySouth, and Mark Jarman's poem "Snoring," published in American Poetry Review.  These links will take you to the poems:

"Homage to Calvin Spotswood"

"Snoring"


Stories by Bryn Chancellor

Stories by Bryn Chancellor, first year M.F.A. student in fiction, appear in The Fourth River (Chatham College, Autumn 2007) and will appear in Yalobusha Review (University of Mississippi, January 2008).
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