Taproots of Tennessee is equal parts history, cookbook, and travel guide
In 2010, songwriter Lynne Drysdale Patterson saw an unexpectedly life-changing film — not a blockbuster or a heartwarming biopic, but a video to promote tourism called Discover Tennessee Trails and…
Pico Iyer’s observations and provocations about Japan leave quiet spaces for the reader’s voice
It’s easy to imagine a book titled A Beginner’s Guide to Japan opening with a quotation from a Japanese writer, or perhaps with a few lines from a Westerner saying…
Book Excerpt: CEASE
wall to keep the peace we need a wall to fall to our knees before to all things an architecture each body its own boundary the air deliberate so many…
“Equilibrium” a poem by Vanderbilt graduate student Tiana Clark, has just won a lucrative national prize
…anthology for Lisa Dordal (Vanderbilt M.F.A. 2011); • A prestigious Stegner Fellowship and inclusion in the 2015 Best New Poets anthology for poet Edgar Kunz (Vanderbilt M.F.A. 2014). Program director…
Melissa Cundieff-Pexa received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University in 2012 and lives now in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two small children. Her poems have appeared in journals…
Lorrie Moore is set to join the faculty of the Vanderbilt creative-writing program
January 18, 2013 Vanderbilt University’s graduate program in creative writing—already the single most selective M.F.A. program in the country—just drafted a powerhouse: Lorrie Moore, a widely acknowledged master of short…
