The Vanderbilt Reading Series: Melissa Range, Poetry

Co-hosted with Vanderbilt University Press, join us in person for an evening with Poet Melissa Range, recent winner of the VU Literary Prize. This is a great chance to experience powerful words and connect with fellow poetry lovers. Don’t miss out on this intimate reading at Vanderbilt!

Melissa Range is the winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize for Printer’s Fist, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2026, as well as the author of , a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

6:00 - Literary Salon

7:00 - Reading

8:00 - Book Signing

Alumni Hall 202 Memorial Hall

23rd Ave N, Nashville, TN 37212

The Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series is named in honor of Vanderbilt founder Cornelius Vanderbilt’s great-grandson and his wife. Each semester, the series brings several professional writers to campus to read from their works and visit classes. This unique and extraordinary program gives English department students and faculty, the Vanderbilt community, and Nashville’s citizens a chance to meet and talk with some of the best writers of our day.

For more information about the Vanderbilt Reading Series and to sign up for our e-mail announcement list, please visit our website. Additionally, make sure to follow us on Instagram at @vandycreativewriting for more updates on events!

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Alumni Hall Vanderbilt University, 23rd Avenue North, Nashville, United States

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