Poetry Reading with Richard Tillinghast + Lawrence Rhu
Schedule
Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205 | Columbia, SC
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Join us April 29th at 6pm for an evening with award-winning poets Richard Tillinghast and Lawrence Rhu as they read from their books of poetry, Night Train to Memphis and Pre-Owned Odyssey and Rented Rooms.Night Train to Memphis, published this year by White Pine Press, is Richard Tillinghast’s latest book of poetry. Among Tillinghast’s other poetry titles are The Stonecutter’s Hand, The Knife and Other Poems, The New Life, Sewanee in Ruins, Wayfaring Stranger, and Six Mile Mountain, along with five books of creative nonfiction. Blue If Only I Could Tell You, his 2022 collection, won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Best American Poetry, The Best of Irish Poetry, and elsewhere. He has taught at Harvard, UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan and is a recipient of the James Dickey Prize, a Sinclair-Kennedy Travel Grant from Harvard, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Amy Lowell Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Council, and the Irish Arts Council.
A native of Memphis, Richard currently makes his home in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee.
Lawrence Rhu is the Todd Professor of the Italian Renaissance, emeritus, at the University of South Carolina. He has published books and essays about the American and European Renaissances and edited Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. His poems have appeared in Poetry, North Dakota Quarterly, One, and other journals. They have won awards from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans and the Poetry Societies of both North and South Carolina. His collection of poems, Pre-owned Odyssey & Rented Rooms was published by Main Street Rag in 2024. It records a pilgrimage by Prius, plane, bicycle, streetcar, and minivan – most of them used, pre-owned, or secondhand.
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