News

By
Britain Miethe

The Lee University Writer’s Festival will conclude
with poet Anya Silver in the Rose Lecture Hall, located in the Helen DeVos
College of Education. The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Monday, Mar. 24.

“Lee’s Writer’s Festival aims to provide examples of quality writing and
inspiration to students and members of the community who have a passion for the
written word,” said Dr. William Woolfitt, assistant professor of English at
Lee.

Silver will be reading poems from her collections, “The
Ninety-Third Name of God” and “I Watched You Disappear.”

“Silver
writes beautiful, heartbreaking poems that find in the messiness and complexity
of our world reasons for hope and awe,” said Woolfitt.

Silver’s
work has been published in numerous literary magazines, including The Georgia
Review, Image, Five Points, The Christian Century, Christianity and Literature,
New Ohio Review, and many others.

She has been featured on
Garrison Keillor’s radio show “The Writer’s Almanac,” Ted Kooser’s column
American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Daily. Image praises her “lyric voice and
stunning, insightful metaphors” that “have the ring of true prayer, that uneasy
voice that seeks grace and expresses agitation, gratitude, and sometimes
anger.”

Silver currently serves as a professor of English at Mercer
University and lives in Macon, Ga., with her husband and son.

For
more information on Lee’s Writer’s Festival, please email Woolfitt at [email protected]
or call 423-614-8230.