As one of the first literature speakers of the school year, Nathaniel Perry will present and discuss his award-winning poetry on Monday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. in Wygal Auditorium. Perry, who currently works as Elliot Assistant Professor at Hampden-Sydney College, published his collection of 52 poems entitled “Nine Acres” in the fall of 2011 with Copper Canyon Press. He went on to receive an award as the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.
Perry’s book’s style reflects that of 1930s farming manuals and has been praised by critics as a “beautiful, subtle and important book.” Critics have also acclaimed the author for having an “attentive sense of place, deft and unobtrusive formal craft and a subtle exploration of that intimacy with the
land that comes [from] thoughtful cultivation.” Perry’s poems are unconventional for contemporary work and written in meter and rhyme.
Perry will be the first in a line of numerous authors to be speaking at Longwood this year. As part of the Authors Series, directed by English professor Dr. Craig Challender, the following authors will also be conducting a reading:
Kelle Groom: memoirist/poet – Monday, Sept. 23 (Wygal, 8 p.m.)
Peter Makuck: poet – Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 (Wygal, 8 p.m.)
Carolyn Creedon: poet – Monday April 14, 2014 (Hull Auditorium, 8 p.m.)
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