Andrew Hudgins is a poet and essayist whose works include Saints and Strangers, After the Lost War and The Never-Ending. His most recent book is American Rendering: New and Selected Poems. Hudgins has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Honors include the Frederick Bock Prize, the Ohioiana Poetry Award and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University.

Speaking Schedule

Friday, April 15
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Presentation of the Donald Justice Poetry Award to Gerald Barrax

3:15 - 4:15 PM
Panel Discussion: Southern Poetic Identities

Grant Support Provided By

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust - Chazen Family Foundation - The Kennedy Foundation - Lyndhurst Foundation - Public Education Foundation - Tennessee Arts Commisson - UC Foundation

Media Sponsors

Brewer Media - Chattarati - WDEF News 12 - WUTC 88.1

Program Partners

Anonymous Gift - Baylor School - Medium - Olan & Norma Mills II

Book Patrons

L. Hardwick & Kitty Caldwell - Memorial Healthcare System - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the UTC Department of English - Wild Hare Books

AEC is a funded member of Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga.

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