William Logan presents the Turnbull Poetry Lecture: “The Shadow of Sex: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129.” William Logan writes poetry and criticism. His most recent books are Rift of Light (poems, Penguin, 2017) and Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (essays and reviews, Columbia University Press, 2021). His reviews, when there are reviews, appear in […]
Gilman Hall 50 Writing Seminars Presents: Armen Davoudian and Jenny Xie Armen Davoudian Davoudian is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars and the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. Photo credit: Matthew Lansburgh Jenny […]
Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National […]
Eric Puchner is the author of the new novel Dream State. His other books include the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two collections of short stories, Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His stories and personal essays […]
Memorial & Brunch Sunday, April 6, 2025 (Johns Hopkins University Alumni Weekend) 10 am - 12 pm Mason Hall Auditorium (Memorial) & Foyer (Brunch), Homewood Campus 3101 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218 John Barth, A&S '51, '52 (MA), groundbreaking and prolific author, revered teacher, and professor emeritus in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins […]
Join us for a conversation about editing and publishing your creative work & careers in writing and editing, with poet Richie Hofmann and novelist Katherine Howe. Richie Hofmann is the author of The Bronze Arms, A Hundred Lovers, and Second Empire. His poetry has appeared recently in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and […]
Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, winner of The Believer Book Award in Poetry, and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Best American Poetry, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing and A Poet’s Craft: […]