Award-winning poet William Wright will read excerpts from his poetry at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 25) in the Berry College McAllister Auditorium.
“Tree Heresies” - Wright's eighth collection of poems, includes poems about yellow jackets, insomnia, a mountain witch, salt marshes, a ditch filled with rainwater, and even a post-apocalyptic portrait of the last person on earth. He is the author of four books and three chapbooks of poems and editor of six editions of “The Southern Poetry Anthology,” published by Texas Review Press.
The founding editor of Town Creek Poetry, Wright serves as an assistant editor for literary magazine Shenandoah. He has also reviewed poetry and interviewed poets for Oxford American as a contributing web columnist. His work has appeared or will soon appear in The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Poetry Review, Epoch, Antioch Review and many other journals. In 2012, he was awarded the Porter Fleming Prize for Poetry.
Wright earned a doctorate in creative writing and literature from The University of Southern Mississippi and also earned degrees from Sam Houston State University and The University of South Carolina-Aiken.
He now works as a freelance editor, writer, tutor and writing workshop leader and lives in Marietta, Ga.
The event is free and open to the public.
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