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, October 7, 2026
Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room.
Time: 04:30 PM
Melissa Range (Poetry)
Melissa Range is the author of Printer’s Fist, winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize (Vanderbilt University Press, 2026), as well as Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016) and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Range is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
Friday, November 6, 2026
Event Location: EMU 231-232, Cedar and Spruce Combined.
Time: 04:30 PM
Michael Copperman (Fiction)
Michael Copperman's memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. His new book is Seeking Kenny (University of Iowa Press 2026).
Wednesday, February 10, 2027
Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room.
Time: 04:30 PM
Maggie Millner (Poetry)
Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of The Atlantic’s ten best books of 2023, and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Couplets has been translated into six languages and published in seven countries. Maggie’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a Senior Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review. Her second book, My Funeral, will be published in June 2027 by FSG (US) and Faber & Faber (UK).
Wednesday, May 12, 2027
Event Location: Knight Library, Browsing Room.
Time: 07:00 PM
Brenda Hillman (Poetry)
Brenda Hillman is the author of numerous collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire,which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry; Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days; and her most recent In a Few Minutes Before Later. In 2016 she was named Academy of American Poets Chancellor. Among other awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.