Sunil Yapa’s first novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016) found its way onto many “best” lists, including Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year, Amazon Best Books of the Year, Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers , and American Booksellers January 2016 Indie Next Great Reads. The biracial son of … Continue reading Sunil Yapa Reading, Rolling Reading Series
Four Pennsylvania poets have been chosen to represent the Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s 2018 Public Poetry Poster series. Jen Ashburn, Thomas Devaney, Dawn Lundy Martin and Marci Nelligan were selected to read their work as part of “An Evening of Pennsylvania Poets: Readings in Celebration of the Public Poetry Project” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March … Continue reading An Evening of Pennsylvania Poets: Readings in Celebration of the Public Poetry Project
Jillian Cantor earned a BA in English from Penn State University and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is the author of award-winning novels for teens and adults, including, most recently, the critically acclaimed The Lost Letter and Margot, which was a Library Reads pick. Born and raised in a suburb of Philadelphia, Cantor currently lives in … Continue reading Jillian Cantor Reading, Rolling Reading Series
Sara J. Grossman is a visiting fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University. Her poems and essays have been published in Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and American Literature, and her first book of poems is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2018.
Plastics@thePalmer Entangled Conversation: Thoughts on Styrofoam: A Reading Evelyn Reilly, New York-based poet and author of Styrofoam (2009) and Apocalypso(2012) Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute, Sustainability Institute, Department of English, and the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art.
Justin Torres’ first novel We the Animals, a national best seller, has been translated into 15 languages and is currently being adapted into a feature film. He has published short fiction and non-fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa … Continue reading Reading by Justin Torres