Walt Reed, William R. Kenan University Professor at Emory University, takes a close look at the song "Graceland" (1986) by Paul Simon, treating the lyrics as a poem that can stand by itself without music or vocals. Paul Simon will deliver the 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, February 10-12, 2013. The Ellmann Lectures consist of a series of public lectures that are ticketed but free and open to the public. Simon's lectures will concern, in part, an overview of the historical antecedents of the music made between 1966 and 1970. Prof. Reed teaches poetry and other types of literature at Emory, and is interested in folk and popular American music.