News

Cover art for Lyric Trade

Julia Bloch releases new book in lyric studies
Cover art for Profiles in Mental Health Courage

Stephen Fried and Patrick J. Kennedy reunite for new book on mental health
Drawing by Elizabeth Shull of a glowing egg between cliffs on a coastline

CW Alum Sanaë Lemoine in Harper's Magazine
A photograph of a scene from Ladysitting. Nana lies in a hospital bed while Lorene Cary's character sits beside her with a warm smile.

Lorene Cary interviewed on Studio 2 at WHYY
Author photo of Victoria Newton Ford

CW Alum Victoria Newton Ford awarded Writing Freedom Fellowship
Poster for "Bartok's Monster" depicting a man playing cello surrounded by sculptural crumpled paper.

Jay Kirk's "Bartok's Monster" featured in Penn Today
photo of Marc Anthony Richardson

Marc Anthony Richardson named Artistic Practitioner Fellow at Brown University
Photograph of Herman Beavers

Herman Beavers elected second vice president of MLA
An artistic rendering of writer Lorene Cary emerging from a background of yellow leaves. In the foreground of the portrait, three generations of Black women walk down a path, the child in the lead.

Lorene Cary's Ladysitting in the Penn Gazette
A photograph from the live recording of the 200th episode of "Poem Talk." Host Al Filreis converses with poets William J. (Billy Joe) Harris, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Tyrone Williams, and Evie Shockley at the Kelly Writers House.

The 200th Episode of "PoemTalk" featured in Penn Today