This year, our Haines Lecturer will be the poet Natasha Trethewey. She will deliver the 29th Haines Lecture on October 25, 2022 at 4:30 PM, in Convocation Hall. It will also be livestreamed on the Sewanee English and Creative Writing Department's YouTube Channel.
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
History of the Haines Lecture
Behind the quiet mien of Stacy Haines lived a great enthusiasm for language, ideas, and the of the mind - an enthusiasm he joyfully shared with his wife Peggy.
Having discovered Sewanee through their son, who was graduated in 1966 with a major in English, Stacy and Peggy moved here when he retired from a career with Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago. From the time of their arrival in this community, their home became a place of hospitality for aspiring and accomplished readers and writers.
This series of lectures and readings, funded permanently by gifts in Stacy's memory from his family and friends, and administered by the College Department of English, stands as a natural and proper extension of the man and his interests.
Stacy Allen Haines
1919 - 1983
Haines Lecturers, Poets, and Writers
2022 - Natasha Trethewey
2021 - Alice McDermott
2018 - Wendy Wall
2017 - Marilyn Nelson
2016 - Danielle Evans
2015 - John Lahr
2014 - Charles Martin
2013 - Jay Parini
2010 - J. Paul Hunter
2009 - Anthony Esolen
2008 - Ann Patchett
2007 - Marjorie Garber
2006 - Geoffrey Wolff
2006 - Andrew Delbanco
2005 - Lawrence Lipking
2004 - James Wood
2002 - Barry Hannah
2001 - Andrew Hudgins
2000 - Paul Muldoon
1999 - Robert Pinsky
1998 - Denis Donoghue
1997 - Madison Jones
1996 - Sir Frank Kermode
1993 - X. J. Kennedy
1990 - Tim O'Brien
1989 - Robert Pack
1988 - Arthur Kinney
1988 - Alan Cheuse
1986 - Anthony Evan Hecht
