Author Andrew Hudgins will open this year’s Sewanee School of Letters readings at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 12, in Gailor Auditorium. A reception will follow the reading.
Hudgins will publish two new books this month. “A Clown at Midnight” is his ninth collection of poems. “The Joker” is a memoir of his career as an appreciator of, thinker about, and irrepressible teller of jokes. Hudgins’s eight previous books of poetry include “Saints and Strangers” (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), “After the Lost War” (winner of the Poets’ Prize), “The Never-Ending” (finalist for the National Book Award), “Shut Up, You’re Fine: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children” and “American Rendering: New and Selected Poems.”
He is also the author of two collections of literary essays, “The Glass Anvil” and “Diary of a Poem.” His work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stanford’s Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and Princeton’s Arthur C. Hodder Fellowship, and honored by prizes from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Hudgins is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He has often served on the faculties of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee School of Letters.
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