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“MTSU’s Gaylord Brewer may be America’s least cynical nihilistic poet. A good chunk of his work features a keen awareness of what’s coming–it’s not good–while reveling in the knowledge that what’s coming isn’t yet here. In The Martini Diet, his latest collection, Brewer writes, “But they’ve not arrived yet, / the monsters of our reckoning, / and my boys and I still live the brilliant / moments we were born to.” Vandy’s Kate Daniels, who knew (correctly) from the moment she turned five that she was born to write, shares a similar sentiment in her poem “Crowns,” which she dedicated to the almost-nihilist Philip Levine: “[A]nd your mind opening up like the pine forest swishing fragrantly overhead / way up in the dark that is coming, but remains, for the moment, blissfully at bay.”
Wed., Oct. 22, 4 p.m., 2008 @ Austin Peay State University [more here]

Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program
Fall 2007

Monday, October 1, 2007, 8 p.m., Buttrick 102, poet Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection.

Friday, October 12, 3 p.m., Buttrick 101, Faculty Reading, Alumni Reunion Weekend: poets Beth Bachmann, Kate Daniels, and Mark Jarman, and novelists Tony Earley, Lorraine Lopez, and Alice Randall.

Wednesday, October 31, 8 p.m., Wilson 126, novelist Robin Lippincott, author of In the Meantime.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, poet Kate Light, author of Gravity‘ Dream. (A performance of Ms. Light‘ “Einstein‘ Mozart” by the Blair String Quarter will be performed at The Blair School of Music‘ Turner Recital Hall, Monday, November 12, at 8 p.m.)

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I’ll totally be at both of those Kate Light events. Her poetry is great. Plus Einstein & Mozart and my favorite meter, dactyls. Whoo.