Keynote Poetry Reading by Mark Jarman, Vanderbilt University

Mark Jarman, Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of Zeno’s Eternity, from Paul Dry Books. He has also published three books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry (Story Line), Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry and also from Paul Dry Books, Dailiness:  Essays on Poetry. His honors include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poets’ Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, three grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. He is Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, having taught at Vanderbilt from 1983 until his retirement in 2020.  He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, the soprano Amy Jarman.

This is part of the Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.