Reading Series
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Spring 2010
- Leanne Tyler
Monday, February 8, 7:00 PM
Lindsey Young Auditorium of the John C Hodges Library
Award winning author, Leanne Tyler’s debut release Victory’s Gate was the 2007 American Rose winner of the Through the Garden Gate contest and was released electronically by The Wild Rose Press in December 2007. Finally in December 2009 the Through the Garden Gate Anthology is available in print and includes the four winning entries. Founding member of the Smoky Mountain Romance Writers and member of Romance Writers of America®, Leanne is a native of Knoxville and a graduate of the University of Tennessee where she has been employed for the last fourteen years.
- Kay Ryan
Wednesday, February 17, 7:00 PM
University Center Auditorium
Kay Ryan is the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She published her sixth collection of poetry, The Niagara River, in 2005. Her first collection, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, was privately published in 1983 with the help of friends. While she found a commercial publisher for her second collection, Strangely Marked Metal (1985), her work went nearly unrecognized until the mid 1990s, when some of her poems were anthologized and the first reviews in national journals were published. She became widely recognized following her receipt of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2004.
- Charles Baxter
Thursday, February 25, 7:00 PM
Lindsey Young Auditorium of the John C Hodges Library
CHARLES BAXTER is the author of nine works of fiction, including The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), Through the Safety Net, and Believers. He is also the author of several works on fiction, including The Art of Subtext and Burning Down the House. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota.
- Karen Head
Monday, March 1, 7:00 PM
Lindsey Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library
Karen Head is the author of the poetry collections, Sassing (WordTech Editions, 2009), My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009) which won the 2008 Editor’s Choice Award for Excellence in Poetry and Shadow Boxes: Poems and Prose Poems (All Nations Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in places like The Southeast Review and New Millennium Writings. She teaches at Georgia Tech University.
- Richard Bausch
Monday, March 29, 7:00 PM
Lindsey Young Auditorium of the John C Hodges Library
Richard Bausch has published 18 novels and short story collections and he currently holds the Moss Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis. His books include Real Presence, The Last Good Time, Rare and Endangered Species and most recently, Peace. His fiction has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Harper’s, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker and has been represented in anthologies like O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories.