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Creative Writing Program at Penn State

Creative Writing Program at Penn State

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      • Interview with Poet Vijay Seshadri
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      • Richard Blanco Reading
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    • Marilyn Nelson
    • Richard Blanco
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2017-18 Reading Series

Dickinson Lecture, Fisher Family Writer-in Residence, and Rolling Reading Series

U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, 2017 Dickinson Lecturer (October 2017)

Mary Gaitskill, 2018 Fisher Family Writer in Residence (February 2018)

Rolling Reading Series:

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Who We Are

Toby Thompson
Shara McCallum
Ali Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator and the winner of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. His writing and translation have appeared in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Asymptote, among other places. His debut novel, The Immortals of Tehran, was published in 2020 and has since been translated into Dutch and Arabic.
Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Elizabeth Kadetsky
Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
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