Poet Maurice Manning will speak on February 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room as part of Butler University’s spring 2015 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series.

All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861.

Manning was born and raised in Kentucky and often writes about the land and culture of his home. His first book of poems, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (2001), was chosen by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.

His subsequent books include A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Lone Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c. (2004); Bucolics (2007); The Common Man (2010), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and The Gone and the Going Away (2013).

Manning has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at DePauw University, Indiana University, and the Sewanee Writing Conference and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. He is a Professor of English at Transylvania University.

Media contact:
Marc Allan
mallan@butler.edu
317-940-9822