Past Events



The Beauty of Choice: A reading and conversation with Wendy Steiner

hosted by Heather Love
Jan 29, 2025 at

co-sponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center and the English Department



Muriel Rukeyser's "Waking this Morning"

A special live recording of PoemTalk, with Jane Malcolm, Kathy Lou Schultz, and Evie Shockley
Jan 28, 2025 at

hosted by Al Filreis

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A Conversation with Kristen Martin (C'11)

Author of The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow
Jan 21, 2025 at

hosted by Jamie-Lee Josselyn

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A Showing from Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance

hosted by Brooke O'Harra and the Students of ENGL/THAR 0785
Dec 9, 2024 at

Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance's fall seminar in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts focuses on questions of how to access and represent the past, with a focus on queer, Black, feminist, and other…



A Reading from the KWH First-Year Seminar

hosted by Julia Bloch and the Students of ENGL 0402
Dec 5, 2024 at

Students in the Kelly Writers House First-Year Seminar have spent the semester discovering what it means to work in and around the "third space" of the Writers House as poets, fiction writers, journalists, and…



Experiments in Witnessing

A reading by the students of Syd Zolf
Dec 4, 2024 at

Please join us for an unforgettable reading by the students in ENGL/GSWS 3104, Poetry Lab, and ENGL/GSWS/COML 3501, Writing & Witnessing. They will share inventive poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid writing…



Book Launch & Reading: Who Is In the Room? by Brooke O'Harra

Nov 22, 2024 at -

Gather with Brooke O’Harra,…



Ross Gay: A Poetry Reading

sponsored by The Creative Writing Program
Nov 21, 2024 at

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What is a Citizen?

Nov 20, 2024 at

sponsored by the Creative Writing Program

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