Poet Daniel Anderson will read from his new collection, “The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel” (Johns Hopkins University Press) at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 6, in Gailor Auditorium. He will also sign copies during a reception following the reading. The event is presented by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the department of English.
Anderson’s work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Harper’s, the New Republic, the Southern Review, the Sewanee Review, the Best American Poetry, Poetry and Southwest Review, among other places. In addition to his new collection from Johns Hopkins University Press, Anderson is the author of two other books of poetry, “Drunk in Sunlight” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and “January Rain” (Story Line Press, 1997). Anderson also edited “The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov” (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2003).
His honors include a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon and is a regular faculty member of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee School of Letters. He holds degrees in English and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati and Johns Hopkins University.
This fall, Anderson will be a senior Tennessee Williams fellow and teach a workshop in poetry at the University.
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