The Sewanee School of Letters continues its series of events this week with a faculty reading at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 28, in Naylor Auditorium with Vievee Francis and Justin Taylor. A reception follows in Gailor Atrium. The public is invited.

Vievee Francis is an American poet and educator. She is the author of three poetry collections: “Blue-Tail Fly” (2006), “Horse in the Dark” (2012), which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize and “Forest Primeval” (2017), which won the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award. She has a collection forthcoming in 2023, titled “The Shared World.”

Francis is the recipient of the 2021 Aiken Taylor Prize, awarded by the Sewanee Review to a distinguished poet. She is also the recipient of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Rona Jaffe Award. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Kresge Foundation. She earned her BA from Fisk University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and many others. She is currently an associate editor for Callaloo and is an associate professor at Dartmouth College.

Justin Taylor is the author of the memoir “Riding with the Ghost,” published by Random House in 2020. He is also the author of three books of fiction: the story collections “Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever” (2010), “Flings” (2014), the novel “The Gospel of Anarchy” (2011), and the forthcoming book titled “REBOOT” (2024). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, BOMB, the Sewanee Review, and Bookforum, as well as many others.

Taylor received his BA from the University of Florida, and his MFA from The New School. He has taught writing at the graduate and undergraduate level in programs across the U.S., including Columbia University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Montana. He is the current director of the School of Letters. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

At 1 p.m., Friday, June 30, in the Torian Room of duPont Library, there will be a Reading and Craft Talk with David Haskell.

David Haskell is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist author. His latest book, “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction” (2022), is an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times, explores the story of sound on Earth. His other books include “The Song of Trees” and “The Forest Unseen.”

The School of Letters offers an MFA in creative writing under the directorship of Justin Taylor. Please visit the School’s website <letters.sewanee.edu> for more information on the program.