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The Poetic Principles literary-arts series is presented by VMFA and the New Virginia Review
Tickets are $8, (members $5) and are available at the Ticket Desk in the Pauley Center, by phoning 804.340.1405 or online.

Randall Kenan

Wed, Jan 20, VMFA Pauley Center at 6 pm
Novelist Randall Kenan is the author of a novel, A Visitation of Spirits, and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and a New York Times Notable Book. His nonfiction titles include Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christine Schutt

Wed, Mar 17, VMFA Pauley Center at 6 pm
Novelist Christine Schutt is the author of two short story collections, A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer (Triquarterly, 2005) and Nightwork (Knopf, 1996). She has also written two novels: All Souls (Harcourt, 2008), which was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize; and Florida (Mariner, 2005), which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. She teaches in New York City.