Reading Series
Ackerman Visiting Writer: Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto with Gabriella Fee, Dora Malech, and Danila Cannamela
ZOOM EVENT LINK Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto was born in Sicily in 1994. Interlinea Edizioni published her first book of poems, Dolore Minimo, in 2018. This debut is the first collection of Italian poetry […]
President’s Reading Series, Literature of Social Import: Tobias Wolff
Mudd Hall 26Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War; the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, and four collections of short stories, In the Garden of the North American […]
Writing Seminars Presents: Willard Spiegelman and Mary Jo Salter on Amy Clampitt
Tudor and Stuart Room, Gilman 388This event will focus on Willard Spiegelman's recent biography on the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt, "Nothing Stays Put." Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English, Emeritus, at Southern […]
MFA Alumni Reading: Chris Grillo and Claire Wahmanholm
Gilman 50Christine Grillo is a writer and an editor whose short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Southern Review, and LIT. Her nonfiction covers science, public health, food systems, agriculture, and climate […]
Writing Seminars Presents: Bruce Snider
Gilman 50Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections, Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press; Paradise, Indiana; and The Year We Studied Women. He is also the […]
Rebecca Makkai: Chaffee Visiting Writer
Mudd Hall 26Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels I Have Some Questions for You, The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime. […]
Afaa Michael Weaver: Albert Dowling Visiting Writer
Gilman 50Afaa Michael Weaver is a poet, playwright, and translator. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen Press, 2023). Other recent books include Spirit Boxing (Pitt […]
Monica Youn: William J. Sullivan, Jr. and Richard H. Elder Visiting Poet
Mudd Hall 26MONICA YOUN is the author of From From (Graywolf Press 2023), Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), Ignatz (Four Way Books 2010), and Barter (Graywolf Press 2003). She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, […]
Major Jackson: Ackerman Visiting Writer
Gilman 50Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems(2023), The Absurd Man(2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for […]
Hernan Diaz: President’s Reading Series, Literature of Social Import
Gilman 50Hernan Diaz is the author of In the Distance, a gorgeously written page-turning epic tale that upends and reinvents the old-school western genre. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner […]
Writing Seminars Presents: David Yezzi on Anthony Hecht in conversation with Mary Jo Salter
Mudd Hall 26David Yezzi’s latest books are Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet’s Life and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems. As an actor, he recently performed the roles of King Lear (Baltimore Shakespeare […]