Join us for the fourth-annual Arkansas Festival of Writers — a celebration of Southern literature!

Featured Readings:

• Ellen Bryant Voigt and Robert Morgan
  7 pm, April 8, Giffels Auditorium, Old Main
• Roy Blount, Jr.
  7 pm, April 9, Giffels Auditorium, Old Main

Roy Blount, Jr. is the author of 20 books, including Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor and Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South, which collects his columns from The Oxford American. His works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The New York Times, Gourmet and Sports Illustrated. He is a regular on NPR's "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me."

Robert Morgan has published nine volumes of poetry, as well as The Hinterlands: This Rock; Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution; Gap Creek, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and won the Southern Book Award for Fiction; and The Truest Pleasure, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and New York Times Notable Mention. A native of the North Carolina mountains, he was raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors. He teaches at Cornell.

Ellen Bryant Voigt has published a book of essays and seven books of poetry, including Kyrie, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, Shadow of Heaven and Messenger: New and Selected Poems, both finalists for the National Book Award. A Vermont Poet Laureate and a Guggenheim, Lila Wallace, NEA and Merrill Fellow, Voigt has received the Hardison Prize from the Folger Library and multiple Pushcart and Best American prizes. She is Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

This event is made possible by support from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the UA Fine Arts Activity Fee.