As if you needed another reason to attend the Classical Consortium Conference in Louisville . . .
Wendell Berry, a noted novelist, poet, farmer, and essayist will be the featured speaker at our Friday evening dinner on January 20, 2017.
The author of more than 40 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Wendell Berry has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1962), the Vachel Lindsay Prize from Poetry (1962), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1965), a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing (1971), the Emily Clark Balch Prize from The Virginia Quarterly Review (1974), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award (1987), a Lannan Foundation Award for Non-Fiction (1989), Membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers (1991), the Ingersoll Foundation’s T. S. Eliot Award (1994), the John Hay Award (1997), the Lyndhurst Prize (1997), and the Aitken-Taylor Award for Poetry from The Sewanee Review (1998).
It’s all part of our joint classical education conference that features presentations by Professor Carol, Andrew Pudewa (Institute for Excellence in Writing), Martin Cothran (Memoria Press), Christopher Perrin (Classical Academic Press), and Andrew Kern (CiRCE Institute).
Conference details: January 20-21, 2017 at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Register here.
Be inspired. Be challenged. Be renewed.