Readings
John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writers Schedule:
August 20: Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson
September 1: Matt Bondurant and his new novel Oleander City on Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Powerhouse, 6 PM
September 6: Melissa Ginsberg and her new poetry collection, Doll Apollo at Off Square Books, 530 PM
September 12: Deesha Philyaw and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Off Square Books 530pm
September 22: Derrick Harriell and Come Kingdom on Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Powerhouse, 6 PM
September 27: Sheila Sundar, 2022-23 Visiting Assistant Professor reading, Hannah-Ford Room, 6PM
October 4: Elizabeth Hughey and Lauren Slaughter, 4:30-5:30 lecture by Elizabeth Hughey, followed by poetry reading by Hughey and Slaughter. Co-sponsored by the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and the College of Liberal Arts
October 17: Georgetown history professor Allison Games delivers the 2022-2023 Savage Lecture in the Renaissance (talk title TBD); co-sponsored by History, 5 PM
November 1: Princeton English and African American Studies professor and book historian Kinohi Nishikawa delivers the belated 2021-2022 Baine Lecture on Black experimental novelist William Melvin Kelley’s debut A Different Drummer
Spring 2023
February 7-9: Ada Limon, Baine Lecture, TBA
March 1-2: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, co-sponsored by Modern Languages.Vasquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. TBA
March 21-22: poets Adam Vines and Jennifer Molberg, TBA