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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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room. 
Time: 04:30 PM

Jan Vernerkmoes (Poetry)

For more information, visit Jan Verberkmoes's website. 

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room.  
Time: 7:00 PM

V. Penelope Pelizzon (Poetry)

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award;  her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize at The Waywiser Press. She is also coauthor of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. Her recognitions include a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. For more information, visit V. Penelope Pelizzon Website.