The Creative Writing program hosts an annual reading series featuring writers from across the country. Visitors conduct a Craft Talk for our undergraduate students in addition to giving a public reading.
Readings are free and open to the public.
While it always our goal to host these events in person, the actual delivery method is subject to the expected conditions at the time of the event. If converted, Zoom registration information will be posted as soon as possible.
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Poetry
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Thea Matthews
Thea Matthews is a poet, educator, and editor of African and Indigenous Mexican descent from San Francisco, California. She holds MFA in poetry from New York University and BA in sociology from UC Berkeley. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Commun, Colorado Review, The Massachusetts Review, Epiphany Magazine, Alta Journal, The new Republic, and others. Author and editor Nathan McClain says of Matthew's poetry, "Deploying familiar, if not found language often as refrain, "Matthews shows us ourselves, shows us our nation, and what it deems significant enough to value or keep." In the fall of 2023, Matthews was a poet in residence for the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco and a curator for the Berkeley Arts Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In June of 2020, she released Unearth [The Flowers] as a collaboration with Red Light Lit Press, and was listed by Kirkus Reviews as one of the top indie poetry collections of 2020. She Currently works for the Academy of American Poets and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
For more information, visit Thea Matthews's website.
Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room.
Time: 04:30 PM
Wednesday, February 05, 2025
Peter Vertacnik
Peter Vertacnik is the author of The Nature of Things Fragile (Criterion Books, 2024), winner of the 2023 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in journals such as 32 Poems, Bas Lilies, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Poet Lore, and THINK, among others. With Chase Dearinger, Vertacnik is the co-director of the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize at Pittsburg State University. Currently he resides in northeast Florida where he teaches at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
For more information, visit Peter Vertacnik website.
Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room.
Time: 04:30 PM
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Henri Cole
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan to a French mother and an American father. He has published eleven collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published Orphic Paris, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.
For more information, visit Henri Cole website.
Photo Credit: Susan Unterberg
Event Location: Gerlinger Lounge.
Time: 07:00 PM
Fiction