Events

Upcoming Events - Advent 2008

On Tuesday, 30 September, at 4:30 p.m. in Convocation Hall, award-winning novelist Ann Patchett will read from her fiction as the English Department's 2008 Haines Memorial Lecturer; this reading will be followed by a wine and cheese reception and book-signing.  Ann Patchett is the author of Bel Canto, winner of the PEN/Faulkner award and the 2002 Orange Prize for fiction; her most recent novel is Run.
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The Sewanee Review and the Aiken Taylor Fund will sponsor a poetry reading by David Middleton on Thursday, 9 October, at 4:30 p.m. in the McGriff Alumni House. 

On Monday, 1 December, at 4:30 p.m. in Saint Luke's Chapel, The Sewanee Review will sponsor a "craft lecture" on the poetry of the 2008 winner of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. 

This lecture will be followed by the recipient of the award reading  from his or her verse on Tuesday, 2 December, at 4:30 p.m. in Convocation Hall (some past recipients of the Aiken Taylor Award include B. H. Fairchild, Henry Taylor, Maxine Kumin, Wendell  Berry, W. S. Merwin, Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, and Howard Nemerov).