Poet Daniel Anderson Reading at Westover School

The poet Daniel Anderson will give a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in Westover School’s Adams Library. The poetry reading is free and open to the public.

In addition to his poetry reading, Anderson will conduct a poetry workshop with Westover students earlier in the day. Westover’s Visiting Poets Program is underwritten by the Nancy May Rennell Field ’35 Fund.

An Ohio native, Anderson holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an M.A. degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Anderson’s three collections of poetry are Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), Drunk In Sunlight (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), and January Rain (Story Line Press, 1997). He also is the editor of The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov (Ohio University Press, 2003).

Anderson’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Best American Poetry, and Southwest Review among other publications.

Currently, Anderson is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, where he teaches in the graduate Creative Writing program. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He also has held teaching positions at Murray State University, the University of the South, Kenyon College, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Anderson is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation.

Members of the public who wish to attend the poetry reading are asked to enter the School through the main entrance on the Middlebury Green. Parking is available in front of the School and along South Street. For directions to Westover, please visit westoverschool.org or call 203-758-2423.

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