On November 14-15, 2011, the Department of English will host a visit by the poet Jeff Hardin. On Monday, November 14, Mr. Hardin will be reading from his poetry. On Tuesday, November 15, he will be delivering a talk titled “Risking Delight: Joy as Wisdom in Literature.” Both events will be held at 8:00 p.m. in Dow Rooms A & B on the Hillsdale College campus, and are free and open to the public.


Jeff Hardin was born in Savannah, Tennessee (Hardin County) in 1968, where he is an eighth-generation descendant from the county’s founder. A graduate of Austin Peay State University and the University of Alabama, he is professor of English at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and many others. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize almost every year for two decades, and his poems have been featured on Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He is the author of two chapbooks, Deep in the Shallows (GreenTower Press, 2002) and The Slow Hill Out (Pudding House, 2003), as well as one book, Fall Sanctuary, winner of the 2004 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press.

For more information, please contact Dr. John Somerville at (517) 607-2431.

(Jeff Hardin photo by Jeff Vespa)