New Creative Writing Professor's Book in the Running for National Book Award
Poet Brian Teare's (Creative Writing) recent book, Doomstead Days (Nightboat Books) has been "long-listed" for a 2019 National Book Award.
New Creative Writing Professor's Book in the Running for National Book Award
Poet Brian Teare's (Creative Writing) recent book, Doomstead Days (Nightboat Books) has been "long-listed" for a 2019 National Book Award.
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Michael Levenson, English Professor's Book Takes Fresh Look at Modernism
"Make it new!" exhorted Ezra Pound, the expatriate American poet and key figure in the Modernist movement of the early 20th century.
Rita Dove Wins Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Dove was recognized for her 2009 book, "Sonata Mulattica," the story of African-Polish violinist George Polgreen Bridgetower.
Professor Jahan Ramazani honored with the Thomas Jefferson Award
The Thomas Jefferson Award is the highest honor the University community bestows upon its faculty.
Professor Jennifer Greeson's Award-Winning Book Looks at the South in American Identity
"You can't imagine the U.S. without including the South," said Jennifer Greeson, author of "Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature," published by Harvard University Press last fall.
Friday on the NewsHour: Rita Dove
Rita Dove, one of the nation's most preeminent poets, has published a novel, a play, a book of short stories and nine collections of verse, including one that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She served as the U.S Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and for the past two decades she has taught at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
In Anthology, Rita Dove Connects American Poets' Intergenerational Conversations
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was recently given what may be the biggest honor -- and challenge -- of her career: sorting through poems from the last 100 years to create "The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry." Jeffrey Brown and Dove discuss the task that took more than four years.
Students’ Poetry Takes a Closer Look at U.Va.
When University of Virginia fourth-year students Allison Geller and Sarah Grigg took a workshop on the poetics of place with English professor Lisa Russ Spaar, they wrote about some unusual details on the Grounds. To mark National Poetry Month, two of their poems are presented below.
Professor Anna Brickhouse featured in UVA Today
June 8, 2012 — As the Spanish explored the New World, a ship stopped in the Chesapeake Bay in 1561 and picked up a Native American youth, whom they took back to Spain. Baptized Don Luis de Velasco, he became an educated translator. In 1570, he accompanied a group of Jesuit priests back to his homeland, where the Spanish established a settlement, Axacán.
When a supply ship visited about 18 months later, the Spaniards found the village deserted, save for one survivor, a Creole youth named Alonso, who said that Don Luis, as he was called by the Spaniards, had murdered the priests.
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Events
Thursday, October 17th
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Ann Beattie Reading
- Where: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
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Ann Beattie Reception
- Where: Old Cabell Hall Lobby
- Start time: 06:00pm
- End time: 07:30pm
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MFA Reading Series
- Where: New Dominion Book Shop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
- Start time: 08:00pm
- End time: 09:00pm
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Michelle Gottschlich and Katie Rice
Friday, October 18th
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Micheline Marcom Reading
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop
- Start time: 07:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
Thursday, October 24th
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Ann Beattie Lecture
- Where: Minor Hall, Room 125
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00pm
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MFA Reading Series
- Where: New Dominion Book Shop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
- Start time: 08:00pm
- End time: 09:00pm
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Kyle Marbut and Miriam Grossman
Friday, October 25th
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Daniel Zimmerman - Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
Saturday, October 26th
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Brian Teare & G. Connolly Reading
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop
- Start time: 07:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
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Join us for a reading with poets Brian Teare (Companion Grasses) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human). This event will be free and open to the public.
Brian Teare is the author of six critically acclaimed books, most recently Companion Grasses (a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award), The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and Doomstead Days, out from Nightboat Books. His honors include the Brittingham Prize and Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. An associate professor at the University of Virginia, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
Gillian Conoley received the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. She was also awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Her most recent collection, A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems, is just out with Nightboat Books. She is the author of seven previous books, including PEACE, an Academy of American Poets Standout Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s translations of Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken, appeared in 2014 with City Lights. Conoley is poet-in-residence and professor of English at Sonoma State University, where she edits Volt.