About this episode
Recorded live, April 10, 2023. In celebration of National Poetry Month, Maurice Manning joined us for Lawson McGhee Library's monthly book discussion group, All Over the Page. Hear Manning read his poems and talk about his book Bucolics. Manning also discusses more recent work including his new podcast, The Grinnin' Possum.
Maurice Manning has published seven books of poetry. His first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, won the Yale Younger Poets Award, and his fourth, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches Transylvania University.
Links:
The Grinnin' Possum Podcast: Poetry Music History with Maurice Manning
Bucolics XXII, XXXV, and LVIII at Art and Theology
Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation
Manning reading at the Sewanee Writer's Conference (Video)
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