Award-winning poet Ryan Wilson will speak on “The Poetry of Remembrance” beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in UTM’s Campbell Auditorium, located in the Andy Holt Humanities Building.
Wilson is returning to campus after being featured at the Southern Literary Festival in April 2018.
The presentation will focus on the development of poetic language and imagination as well as the language of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Wilson is the author of “The Stranger World,” a collection of poems that won the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. The book will be available for purchase and signing during the event.
Wilson is also editor of Literary Matters, an online journal for literary criticisms, translations, poetry and interviews. Through the journal, he has published works by several U.S. Poets Laureate and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Bollingen Prize. His own poems have been published in platforms such as Best American Poetry 2018, Five Points, the Hopkins Review, the New Criterion, the Sewanee Review and the Yale Review.
Wilson works as an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and teaches in the Western State Colorado University graduate program. He also serves as the office administrator and chief financial officer of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, a non-profit organization that supports the study of literature in academic and creative environments.
Wilson’s presentation is sponsored by the UTM Honors Programs. For more information about the speaker or the honors programs, contact John Glass, director, at 731-881-7436.
