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Hillsdale College’s Visiting Writers Program Welcomes Linda Gregerson

Two-night event will feature a reading and lecture from award-winning poet

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On Tuesday, March 19, and Wednesday, March 20, Hillsdale College’s English Department will host poet and University of Michigan professor of English Linda Gregerson. This two-night event, part of the Visiting Writers Program for the English Department, will feature a reading of Gregerson’s work on Tuesday followed by a lecture on Wednesday titled “Milton and the Syntax of Faith.”

The reading and lecture are free and open to the media, but space is limited. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP by contacting [email protected].

WHEN: Tuesday, March 19, 2019
7:30 p.m. ET – Doors Open
8 p.m. ET – Reading

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
7:30 p.m. ET – Doors Open
8 p.m. ET – Lecture: “Milton and the Syntax of Faith”

WHERE: Dow Conference Center
Rooms A & B
22 East Galloway Drive
Hillsdale, MI 49242

WHO: Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and an award-winning poet. Gregerson’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Poetry, Granta, The Paris Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has authored several critical works and books and won the Kinglsey Tufts Poetry Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

About Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College is an independent liberal arts college located in southern Michigan. Founded in 1844, the College has built a national reputation through its classical liberal arts core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies, even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a circulation of more than 5.7 million. For more information, visit hillsdale.edu.

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Media inquiries may be directed to:
Emily Stack Davis
517-607-2730 (work)
517-803-3745 (cell)
[email protected]
For all other inquiries contact Hillsdale College at 517-437-7341