June 18 at the Sewanee Inn
Tickets are $150 per person for dinner and cocktails at the Sewanee Inn. Tables are $1500 each for 8 guests including yourself. All other events during the week are free.
Join us to celebrate 20 Years of the Sewanee School of Letters!
Come to Sewanee this summer to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the School of Letters! We will reconnect with friends, faculty, students, and alumni of the MA and MFA programs for cocktails, dinner, and a few fun surprises, on the evening of Thursday, June 18, at the Sewanee Inn. We are thrilled to announce that our keynote speaker will be poet Natasha Trethewey.
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In addition to her poetry, Trethewey is the author of two memoirs The House of Being (2024) and Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. At Sewanee, she has been the Haines Lecturer and an honorary degree recipient.
In addition, on Wednesday afternoon, June 17, as part of our Summer Reading Series, there will be a reading with novelist Eliana Ramage, details here. On Thursday morning, we'll have coffee at Gailor for our 20th Anniversary seminars with faculty including Adam O'Fallon Price and Dr. Pamela Macfie. Details to come!
Register and purchase dinner tickets using the link below.
The Sewanee Inn has a block of rooms available. Email us for more information.
School of Letters current or former faculty member? Thanks to a generous donor, we have a ticket for you and your partner or plus one. Look for an email or give us a shout.
