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Editor and Poet William Wright to Give Reading

November 2, 2015

Hillel House Multipurpose Room (101)

Julie Cline

Washington and Lee University’s Glasgow Endowment and “Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review” will present a reading by editor and poet William Wright of Marietta, Georgia, on Nov. 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Hillel House on the W&L campus.

Wright, whose Ph.D. is from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Writing Center, is the author of several volumes of poetry, including “Tree Heresies,” “Night Field Anecdotes” and “Dark Orchard.” He is an assistant editor for “Shenandoah” and also edits “Town Creek Poetry.”

His long-term projects include the ambitious multi-volume series “The Southern Poetry Anthology” with Texas Review Press. He is also co-editing “Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry,” University of South Carolina (forthcoming, 2016).

Wright, whose subject matter includes both the gothic rural South and the new, changing and diverse South, has also been a college writing teacher and a peach packer. He will serve as the guest writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in the spring of 2016.