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On February 17 and 18 are the festivities surrounding the appearance of Donald Hall, 2009 recipient of the Sewanee Review’s Aiken-Taylor award for poetry. Hall, as you may know, is a major and senior figure in American poetry; now in his 80s, he published his first poems at 16, when he was Robert Frost’s student at Bread Loaf.  He’s won most of the major prizes for a poet (and a few unusual ones, like a Caldecott medal for Children’s literature) and was the Poet Laureate of the United States.

At 3:00 p.m. on the 17th, in the Alumni House, Poet Peter Makuck will lecture on the importance and meaning of Hall’s work. The next day, Feb 18 at 4:30 in Convocation Hall, Donald Hall will receive his award and read from his poetry.

Then on March 1, at 4:40, in Gailor Auditorium, Playwright David Roby, next year’s Tennessee Williams Fellow and Writer in Residence at Sewanee, will read from his works. Roby is a very promising younger playwright and an excellent reader of his own works; should be a good show.

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