From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including No Ruined Stone. McCallum’s poems and essays have … Continue reading VIRTUAL EVENT: Rolling Reading Series Presents Poet & Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum
Grace Talusan is the author of the memoir, The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, the winner in nonfiction for the Massachusetts Book Awards, and the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Nonfiction Writer Grace Talusan
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid-genre photo-text memoir Intimate; the book-length essay The Broken Country: On Trauma, A Crime, and the Continuing … Continue reading A Reading by Paisley Rekdal: Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence
Tim Seibles is the author of six collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), and Fast Animal (2012), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Poet Tim Seibles
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of … Continue reading CANCELED: Natasha Trethewey to Read as 2022 Dickinson Lecturer
XU XI 許素細 (b. 1954) is a former Indonesian national of Chinese descent from Hong Kong who became a U.S. national at the age of 33. An author of fifteen … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Xu Xi 許素細
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels, novellas, collections, and comic books. The most recent are The Only Good Indians and My Heart … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Stephen Graham Jones
Samuel Kọ́láwọlé was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. His work has appeared in AGNI, Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, Gulf Coast, The Evergreen Review, Washington Square Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
SPRING 2023 POETRY SALON: Professor Shara McCallum and students in her graduate poetry workshop (ENGL 513) will host a series of poetry readings during the spring 2023 semester. Poets will offer brief … Continue reading Poetry Salon: Julia Spicher Kasforf
Krista Eastman is the author of The Painted Forest, which was named one of the best literary nonfiction debuts of 2019 by Poets & Writers. The Painted Forest also won … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Krista Eastman