Bruce 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 co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, and Threepenny Review, among […]
Come to Bird in Hand just to listen or bring a poem to share on Sunday April 30th from 4 PM to 6 PM. The open mic night, in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, will be hosted by Johns Hopkins' BlueJays & Poets, a club that welcomes poets of all backgrounds, aiming particularly to provide a safe […]
Rebecca 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. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Great Believers received an American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in […]
Afaa 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 Poetry Series, 2017); City of Eternal Spring (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award; The Government of Nature (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), winner […]
What Happens Next: Advice and Conversation about MFA Programs, MFA Applications, Submitting and Publishing Your Own Writing, and Writing-Related Career PathsAre you considering applying to an MFA program? Interested in submitting your writing to journals and magazines? Want to know more about the publishing industry? Please join us from 6:00-7:30 PM in Olin 305 on […]