HONORS PROGRAMS TO BRING AWARD-WINNING POET TO CAMPUS
HONORS PROGRAMS TO BRING AWARD-WINNING POET TO CAMPUS
MARTIN, Tenn. – Award-winning poet Ryan Wilson will speak on “The Poetry of
Remembrance” beginning at 6:30 p.m., Jan. 31, in the University of Tennessee at Martin’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 has also published multiple critical essays, which have
received awards such as the Jacques Maritain Prize, the Eleanor Clark Award and the Sewanee
Review’s Walter Sullivan Prize.
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. He holds degrees from the University of Georgia, Johns Hopkins
University and Boston University.
Wilson’s presentation is sponsored by the UT Martin Honors Programs. For more information
about the speaker or the honors programs, contact Dr. John Glass, director, at 731-881-7436.
