Poet Maggie Anderson, famed for her evocation of Appalachian themes and language in her work, will read from her poems at Vanderbilt University as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.
Anderson, whose collections include Windfall: New and Selected Poems and A Space Filled with Moving, will appear 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in Room 102 Buttrick Hall.
“Always cutting to the quick of modern flux, her poems elevate the natural brilliance of small things in our lives, urban and pastoral, or at the heart of a shifting emotional landscape,” wrote poet Yusef Komunyakaa of Anderson’s work.
The reading is free and open to the public.
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