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Award-winning author Darien Hsu Gee read select works last Thursday, Oct. 12, at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center, thanks to UConn’s Creative Writing Program. She is now the third recipient of the Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Program, following Alexander Chee in 2021 and Justin Torres in 2019.  

Memoirist and poet Emerson Whitney joins the Visiting Writers Series as the second reader of the 2023/24 season at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by […]

University of Arizona professor of English Manuel Muñoz was named one of this year's MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious fellowship awarded each year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently Lawrence Buell in conversation with Megan Marshall Thursday, October 12, 2023, at 7:00 pm ET Approximately 60 minutes. This hybrid program will be held in person at Antiquarian Hall and livestreamed to a virtual audience on YouTube. Advance registration is required for both. Doors open at 6:30pm. Register for in person attendance

The bilingual edition of Boat People (Cardboard House Press, 2021), written by Mayra Santos Febres and translated by Vanessa Perez-Rosario has received Honorable Mention for the Juan Felipe Herrera best bilingual poetry book in the International Latino Book Award 2023 competition. To celebrate this recognition, the AfroLatino Forum (in conjunction with the Small Axe Project,…

On Sept. 20, in the children’s section of McNally Jackson Books’ new Prince Street location, a love poetry reading, co-sponsored by NYU’s Creative Writing Program, was held. Picture books lined the walls, and rows of folding chairs covered every inch of the floor as poets Jericho Brown, Alex Dimitrov and Deborah Landau each read aloud...

Event will also feature BU alum Annette Frost, director of the Favorite Poem Project

NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, a vessel for artistry and imagination tucked into the West Village, houses the creative writing program’s fall 2023 reading series. It commenced on Thursday, Sept. 14, with poetry readings by Dean Rader and Nicole Sealey. The night began with a warm welcome by Joanna Yas, readings and special programs...

On Oct. 3-4, the University of Central Arkansas School of Language and Literature, along with the UCA Creative Writing Program, will host a campus visit by internally acclaimed poet, editor,

The SMSU Creative Writing Program and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host Jimmy Santiago Baca on Sept. 19-20. He will be on campus visiting classes