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. […]
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Reading Series
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 […]
Turnbull Poetry Lecture: Ange Mlinko
Gilman Hall 50Ange Mlinko is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Venice, and a forthcoming book of lyric criticism, Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets. She has won the Randall Jarrell Award in […]
Writing Seminars Presents: Callie Siskel & Taylor Koekkoek
Gilman Hall 50Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds (W. W. Norton) and Arctic Revival, winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in the Atlantic,Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and Paris Review. A […]
Writing Seminars Presents: Andrew Motion and Ackerman Visiting Writer Declan Ryan
Gilman Hall 50Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, and is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart. His most recent publications are New and Selected Poems 1977-2022, The […]
Jonathan Escoffery: Chaffee Visiting Writer
Gilman Hall 50Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the critically acclaimed debut story collection If I Survive You (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the 2023 Booker Prize. His next book is the […]
Christopher Childers: a Reading and Conversation with Karen ni Mheallaigh
Mudd 26 @ Johns Hopkins University 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesChristopher Childers is a poet and translator living in Baltimore, MD. He has published poems, essays and translations in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Matters, and Smartish Pace, […]
President’s Series, Literature of Social Import: Hari Kunzru
Krieger 205Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels, including Blue Ruin, forthcoming from Knopf on May 14, 2024. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the […]