This 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 Methodist University in Dallas, where he taught from 1971 until 2017, and where he was the editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review (1984-2016). He will speak mThe […]
Christine 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 change, and has been published in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic: CityLab, Audubon, NextTribe, and Real Simple. Grillo earned degrees at […]
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 […]
MONICA 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, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship among […]
Major 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 a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He is also the […]
Please join us on Thursday, October 26th, at 6 PM for a presentation and Q & A about the publishing industry, featuring Flatiron Books Executive Editor Caroline Bleeke and Triangle House Literary Agent Emma Dries. This event will be held in Mason Hall Room 101 and is free and open to the public. Caroline Bleeke publishes literary and upmarket […]
Hernan 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 award, this extraordinary novel offers a probing examination of the stereotypes that populate America’s past, following a young Swedish immigrant as he travels through the American frontier […]
David 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 Factory) and Hamlet’s Ghost (Chesapeake Shakespeare). A 2022 short-term visiting fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.