Panel: Lowell on the Page

Wyatt Prunty’s latest poetry collection is Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promise. He lives in Sewanee, where he is the Ogden D. Carlton Professor in Sewanee’s English Department. He directs the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Tennessee Fellowship Series. He edits the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series.

Richard Tillinghast is the author of twelve books of poetry including, most recently, Selected Poems (2008) and Wayfaring Stranger (2012), as well as five non-fiction books: Finding Ireland (2008); An Armchair Traveller’s History of Istanbul (2012); Poetry and What Is Real (2004), and most recently, Journeys into the Mind of the World: A Book of Places (2017). Damaged Grandeur (1995), is a critical memoir of Robert Lowell, with whom he studied as a graduate student at Harvard in the mid-sixties. He divides his time between Sewanee, Tennessee, and Hawaii.