{"id":478,"date":"2008-02-06T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:24:44","slug":"poet-nick-flynn-to-read-in-grisham-visiting-writers-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/poet-nick-flynn-to-read-in-grisham-visiting-writers-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Nick Flynn to Read in Grisham Visiting Writers Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px; width: 250px; float: left; background-color: #ffffff\" class=\"jce?caption\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/stories\/nick.jpg\" alt=\"nick.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt; float: left; width: 250px; height: 373px\" title=\"nick.jpg\" height=\"373\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center; clear: both\" class=\"jce?caption?text\">\nNick Flynn\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span> OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; Poet Nick Flynn reads at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Mississippi Feb. 12 as part of the<br \/>\nGrisham Visiting Writers Series.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<span> The free, public program begins at 7 p.m. at the<br \/>\nOle Miss-Oxford Depot. The author is slated to sign<br \/>\nbooks at Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square,<br \/>\nstarting at 5 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span> A native of Scituate, Mass., Flynn is known by many<br \/>\nwithin the literary world for his often<br \/>\nautobiographical themes. His poem &#8220;Bag of Mice,&#8221;<br \/>\nwhich won the &#8220;Discovery&#8221;\/The Nation Award in 1999,<br \/>\ndeals with his mothers suicide. His best-known<br \/>\ntitle &#8220;Another Bullshit Night in Suck City&#8221;<br \/>\n(Norton, 2004), is an account of his tumultuous<br \/>\nearly life and his relationship with his father.<br \/>\nThe book won Flynn the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for<br \/>\nthe Art of Memoir and has been translated into 10<br \/>\nlanguages.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span> &#8220;It&#8217;s exciting to have Nick Flynn coming to town;<br \/>\nhe is worth seeing in person,&#8221; said Gary Short,<br \/>\nvisiting assistant professor of English. &#8220;Flynn is<br \/>\nwriting some of the best and most provocative work<br \/>\nof any contemporary writer.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span> Flynn&#8217;s parents divorced when he was young, and his<br \/>\nmother committed suicide when he was 22. He drifted<br \/>\nthrough several jobs before starting work at a<br \/>\nhomeless shelter in Boston. It was there at age 27<br \/>\nthat he met his estranged, homeless father for the<br \/>\nfirst time.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>The author received a master of fine arts in creative<br \/>\nwriting from New York University. A faculty member at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Houston Creative Writing Program, he worked<br \/>\nas a field poet and as an artistic collaborator on the film<br \/>\n&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Nightmare,&#8221; which was nominated for an Academy<br \/>\nAward for best feature documentary in 2006.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span> Flynn won the inaugural PEN\/Joyce Osterweil Award<br \/>\nfor his first book of poetry, &#8220;Some Ether&#8221;<br \/>\n(Graywolf, 2000). He also wrote &#8220;Blind Huber&#8221;<br \/>\n(Graywolf, 2002) and co-authored &#8220;A Note Slipped<br \/>\nUnder the Door&#8221; (Stenhouse Publishers, 2000) with<br \/>\nShirley McPhillips.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span> His poems, essays and nonfiction have appeared in<br \/>\nsuch publications as The New Yorker, The Paris<br \/>\nReview, The Nation, Fence and The New York Times.<br \/>\nFlynn has been awarded fellowships from the<br \/>\nGuggenheim Foundation, Library of Congress, Amy<br \/>\nLowell Trust and Fine Arts Work Center.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span> For more information or for assistance related to a<br \/>\ndisability, contact Gary Short at 662-915-7439 or<br \/>\nby e-mail at<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span><a href=\"mailto:gshort@olemiss.edu\"><br \/>\ngshort@olemiss.edu<\/a>. To learn more about the Department<br \/>\nof English, visit<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><\/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>\u00a0 Nick Flynn OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; Poet Nick Flynn reads at the University of Mississippi Feb. 12 as part of the Grisham Visiting Writers Series. \u00a0<!-- 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>Poet Nick Flynn to Read in Grisham Visiting Writers Series - 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\/poet-nick-flynn-to-read-in-grisham-visiting-writers-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poet Nick Flynn to Read in Grisham Visiting Writers Series - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Nick Flynn OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; 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