{"id":389,"date":"2007-11-05T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:25:26","slug":"barry-hannah-gary-short-to-read-fiction-and-poetry-together-nov-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/barry-hannah-gary-short-to-read-fiction-and-poetry-together-nov-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Hannah, Gary Short to Read Fiction and Poetry Together Nov. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span>OXFORD, Miss. &#8212; Award-winning authors Barry Hannah and<br \/>\nGary Short are to read some of their best poetry and<br \/>\nfiction at the University of Mississippi Thursday (Nov.<br \/>\n8).<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<span>The faculty reading, sponsored by the Department of<br \/>\nEnglish, begins at 7 p.m. in Bryant Hall Gallery. Admission<br \/>\nis free and open to the public.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Founder of the university&#8217;s Master of Fine Arts in Creative<br \/>\nWriting, Hannah has written 12 books, including the<br \/>\ncollections &#8220;High Lonesome&#8221; and &#8220;Airships.&#8221; The latter is<br \/>\nregarded as an American classic. He has been honored by the<br \/>\nAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters, and was nominated for<br \/>\nthe American Book Award for &#8220;Ray&#8221; and the National Book<br \/>\nAward for &#8220;Geronimo Rex,&#8221; which won the William Faulkner<br \/>\nPrize.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Short is a visiting professor of English and administrator<br \/>\nof the MFA in Creative Writing program at Ole Miss. He was<br \/>\nformerly on the faculty at the University of<br \/>\nAlaska-Fairbanks and at Old Dominion University in<br \/>\nVirginia. He has been a writing fellow at Fine Arts Work<br \/>\nCenter in Provincetown and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford<br \/>\nUniversity. Short&#8217;s works include the books &#8220;Theory of<br \/>\nTwilight,&#8221; &#8220;Flying Over Sonny Liston&#8221; and &#8220;10 Moons and 13<br \/>\nHorses.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>&#8220;This is my first reading at Ole Miss,&#8221; Short said. &#8220;It&#8217;s<br \/>\nmy introduction to the community, and I&#8217;m honored to be on<br \/>\nthe same bill as Barry Hannah.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>For more information about the UM Department of English,<br \/>\nvisit<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/english\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/english<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>or call 662-915-7439.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. &#8212; Award-winning authors Barry Hannah and Gary Short are to read some of their best poetry and fiction at the University of Mississippi Thursday (Nov. 8).<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barry Hannah, Gary Short to Read Fiction and Poetry Together Nov. 8 - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/barry-hannah-gary-short-to-read-fiction-and-poetry-together-nov-8\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barry Hannah, Gary Short to Read Fiction and Poetry Together Nov. 8 - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OXFORD, Miss. &#8212; 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