Student Writers: Mark your calendars for our next WRITE NIGHT ... Join a community of student writers for our next night (ok, afternoon) designed to invigorate your writing life -- burst into spontaneous writing, share your writing with friendly ears, get constructive feedback, discuss publishing opportunities, and more. Our series of student writer gatherings is designed … Continue reading Write Night
Wednesday, March 2, 12:10 p.m., Palmer Museum of Art (Art of Poetry Series) Abby Minor, poet and author of The Velvet Season and Voices from Outside, Lit from Inside.
Student Writers: Mark your calendars for our next WRITE NIGHT … Join a community of student writers for our next night (ok, afternoon) designed to invigorate your writing life — burst into spontaneous writing, share your writing with friendly ears, get constructive feedback, discuss publishing opportunities, and more. Our series of student writer gatherings is designed … Continue reading Write Night
Roberson's books include To See the Earth before the End of the World, The New Wing of the Labyrinth, City Eclogue, Atmosphere Conditions, Voices Cast out to Talk Us In, When Thy King Is a Boy and many others. “I’m not creating a new language. I’m just trying to un-White-Out the one we’ve got.” - … Continue reading Poet Ed Roberson to read
Kate Daniels is the author of four collections of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria's Secret (LSU 2011), her most recent. She is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. The many recognitions she has received for her poetry include the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013-14.
Lisa Sewell is the author of Impossible Object, which won the 2014 Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works, as well as The Way Out (Alice James Books) Name Withheld (Four Way Books), and Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award from Seven Kitchens Press. She is also co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Poets in the 21st Century: The … Continue reading Art of Poetry: Lisa Sewell
Tom Williams is the author of three books of fiction: The Mimic’s Own Voice, Don’t Start Me Talkin’, and his latest, Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales. An associate editor of the American Book Review, he also chairs the English Department at Morehead State University in Kentucky.
Thursday, April 21 from 7:30 pm, Foster Auditorium Public Poetry Project Reading, sponsored by Pennsylvania Center for the Book, featuring the following poets and poems: "Autumn Evening at the Window with Brushes" by Peter Oresick; "California" by Michelle Lin; "My Dark, Semitic Wiles" by Nicole Steinberg; and "Sundress" by Dawn Lonsinger.
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to five other novels, including One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, The World Made Straight, and Above the Waterfall; five collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won … Continue reading Ron Rash to Kick off Rolling Reading Series
Juan Felipe Herrera, Penn State's 2016 Dickinson Lecturer, is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2017) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera has published many collections of poetry, and is a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National … Continue reading U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to Read