1,250 Attend Inaugural Welty Lecture with Salman Rushdie; Natasha Trethewey Offers Introduction
Introduced by former Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Trethewey, preeminent author Salman Rushdie delivered the Inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture at the Washington National Cathedral in the nation’s capital on October 20. A sell-out audience of some 1,250 attended the event, co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare […] Read more »
Jerome McGann Addresses New Methods of Studying Poetry
Jerome McGann, University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia, presented “Reading Poetry,” the first installment in this year’s Visiting Writers Series at Millsaps, co-sponsored by the college English Department and the Eudora Welty Foundation. Dr. McGann’s October 3 lecture presented a new way of studying poetry and elaborated on the following […] Read more »
Jane Austen Films Draw Large Crowds to Welty Garden
Authors Eudora Welty and Jane Austen lived in different centuries and on different continents, but similarities in their writing link the writers for fans today. Those connections have been highlighted with three programs during the late summer and early fall at the Eudora Welty House and Garden. The series began with the screening of Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow, […] Read more »
Welty House & Garden Now Open on Second Saturdays Each Month
Visitors are welcomed to tour the Eudora Welty House and Garden on second Saturday mornings of each month, as greeted in the feature photograph by Maggie Stevenson, Special Projects Coordinator. Tours are offered at 9 and 11 a.m. Reservations may be made by calling 601-353-7762 or on line at tours@eudoraweltyhouse.com. Three special programs were held on […] Read more »