Richard Tillinghast on "Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations in Irish Literature and Culture"

Thursday, February 26th at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House

Poet and essayist Richard Tillinghast discusses Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). A Tennessee native who has settled in Tipperary, Tillinghast writes for The Irish Times on literature and the changes in Irish culture as seen from the standpoint of a foreign resident.

Richard Tillinghast is the author of eight books of poetry and three books of non-fiction.

In 2008 he published Finding Ireland, subtitled “A poet’s explorations of Irish literature and culture,” University of Notre Dame Press and The New Life, poems, published by Copper Beech. A member of the faculty at Harvard, Sewanee, and Berkeley before moving to Ann Arbor in 1983, Richard taught in the Michigan MFA program before taking early retirement in 2005 and moving to County Tipperary. For twenty years beginning in the 1980s Tillinghast reviewed new poetry for the New York Times Book Review. He has also reviewed and written literary essays for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and The New Criterion, as well as writing travel articles for the Times and other magazines. His poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, as well as online on Slate, Poetry Daily and elsewhere. Now that he is living in Ireland, he reviews frequently for The Irish Times and the Dublin Review of Books. His poems have also been featured on Garrison Keillor’s NPR show, “The Writer’s Almanac.” The Irish Arts Council gave him several travel grants in 2006 and2007, and in 2008 awarded him a Literature Bursary. In May 2008 he was granted the honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of the South (Sewanee).

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