Other acclaimed Southern writers attending the festival include Ellen Douglas, Beth Henley and Aleda Shirley. Student and faculty representatives from 27 Southern colleges and universities will participate in the annual Southern Literary Festival, which will also feature writing workshops, a panel discussion on the role of literature in people's lives, poetry and fiction readings and creative writing competitions.
All events are free and open to the public.
New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 . He recently propelled Dante onto the best-seller lists with his acclaimed 1994 translation of the Inferno . In addition to his poetry, Pinsky is the author of three books of prose, as well as a translation of The Separate Notebooks by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz. He currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Boston University. As keynote speaker for the conference, Pinksy will give a reading of his poetry on Saturday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall.