News Release
March 2000
Poet
Wyatt Prunty will read from his work in Prosser Auditorium at 8 p.m.
March 30. The reading is co-sponsored by Moravian College’s Zinzendorf
Society (English majors’ club) and the Manuscript, the College’s
literary magazine. Admission is free and open to the public.
Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, Prunty’s
sixth book of poetry, was published in 1999 by Johns Hopkins University
Press. His poems have also appeared in such publications as The New
Yorker, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Southern Review, and Yale Review.
He is also the author of a critical book, Fallen from the Symboled World:
Precedents for the New Formalism, published in 1990 by Oxford University
Press.
Of the poems in Unarmed and Dangerous, Richard Wilbur
has said they "continue . . . [Prunty’s] development of a
riverine style, a style which expresses both their musing character
and the flow of noticings and events." And Donald Justice has written
that "Wyatt Prunty’s poems give a true sense and picture
of American life during the last several decades, especially in the
South."
Prunty teaches in the English Department at the University
of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, directs the annual Sewanee Writers’
Conference, and edits the Sewanee Writers’ Series books, also
published by JHU Press. A graduate of the University of the South, Prunty
holds advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins and Louisiana State universities.
He has also taught at Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, and Virginia
Tech.
