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Spring 2025 Featured Events
sarah gordon reads from her new poetry collection
The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities presents a poetry reading in celebration of Sarah Gordon’s new poetry collection, Six White Horses, published by Mercer University Press. This event is free and open to the public.
Sarah Gordon is the author of widely published poems and two previous collections of poetry: Distances and The Lost Thing as well as Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination and A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. Gordon is professor emerita of English at Georgia College & State University where she chaired five O’Connor symposia and was named Distinguished Professor. She is a recipient of The Governor’s Award in the Humanities and lives in Athens, Georgia.
Support for this event comes from the Habit of Art Foundation account established by Dr. Bruce Gentry. Books will be for sale thanks to Barnes & Noble.
Please join us on Zoom during the academic year for new discussions on Flannery O'Connor. Recorded sessions from 2024 are available on our YouTube channel.
See the following to register:
SPRING 2025 ZOOM SESSIONS:
All events open to the public. Virtual events are co-sponsored by The Georgia Writers Museum and Allied Arts of Milledgeville.
Thursday ,March 20 Book Club: Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read chapters 8-10. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday, April 17 Book Club: Join us to discuss O’Connor’s famous essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.” (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday, May 15 Book Club: Join us to discuss Flannery O’Connor’s Introduction to the Memoir of Mary Ann, about which O’Connor said “nobody will ever understand me unless they read this essay.” (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
PAST EVENTS
Recordings from prior years are available on our old YouTube page. The links below will take you to the playlists.