The 18Th Oxford Conference for the Book the University of Mississippi • Oxford, Mississippi • March 24–26, 2011
the the newsletter of the Center for the study of southern Culture • winter 2011 the university of mississippi The 18th Oxford Conference for the Book The University of Mississippi • Oxford, Mississippi • March 24–26, 2011 he 18th Oxford Conference for the Book, a program of readings, talks, and panels on March 24–26, 2011, will Talso celebrate two major literary events: the centen- nial of playwright Tennessee Williams’s birth in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911, and the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. Speakers will include notable authors, editors, and others in the book trade as well as educators, literacy advocates, and readers of all ages. Fifth and ninth graders will join the audience for two sessions with authors of books for young readers. The conference edition of Thacker Mountain Radio, a fiction and poetry jam, workshops for writers, and a marathon book signing at Off Square Books are also part of the festivities. The conference will begin at the J. D. Williams Library at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 24, with lunch and a keynote address by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, who will discuss her new book on Southern women and autobiography. The program on Thursday afternoon will begin with a celebration of American Poetry Month, when poets Michael McFee, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Richard Tillinghast, a Tennessean now living in Ireland, will read from their work and answer ques- tions from the audience. Next, W. Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing at the Library of Congress, will talk with poet and memoirist Natasha Trethewey and novelist Jesmyn Ward, both from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, about their work.
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