Tuesday, March 26th: Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of the poetry collection, Ghost Of, a debut collection that was shortlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry.
The Public Poetry Project is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book with support from the University Libraries, the Department of English in the College of the Liberal Arts, … Continue reading Public Poetry Project
Katie Fallon is the author of Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird (UPNE, 2017) and Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), as … Continue reading Mary E. Rolling Reading series presents Katie Fallon
Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019). His work has appeared in journals such as Washington Square Review, Southern Humanities Review, Fiction International, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and The Southampton Review. He co-edits Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature and teaches in the English Department … Continue reading Book Release: Michael Don’s Partners & Strangers
Readings, workshops, seminars, college-level discussions, a featured writer and swag! Students will generate new work, discuss literature, work with publishing authors, and meet like-minded young writers. Though open to any student who enjoys reading and writing, this event is particularly aimed towards sophomores and juniors considering the study of writing at the university level. Contact: Camille-Yvette Welsch Associate Teaching Professor … Continue reading High School Writing Day at Penn State
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery … Continue reading 2019 Emily Dickinson Lectureship: Terrance Hayes
The “Art of Poetry” series at the Palmer Museum is co-sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing Program. On Wednesday, September 18, poet Tyler Mills will be offering a reading … Continue reading Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum
The Red Weather Reading Series is hosting Danielle Cadena Deulen, award-winning poet and essayist, for a reading on Wednesday, September 25, at 6pm in the Grucci Room (102 Burrowes). Danielle is the author of a memoir, The Riots; two poetry collections, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us and Lovely Asunder; and a poetry chapbook, American Libretto. … Continue reading Red Weather Reading Series to Host Danielle Cadena Deulen
Vicki Glembocki is an award-winning magazine writer, author of the memoir The Second Nine Months, and a contributing editor at Readers Digest. Her work has appeared in Playboy, Women’s Health, Parents, Philadelphia Magazine, Salon, The Daily Beast, More, and Ladies Home Journal. She earned a BA and MFA from Penn State and currently lives near Atlanta with her Australian cattle dog, husband, and three daughters.
The “Art of Poetry” series at the Palmer Museum is co-sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing Program. On Wednesday, October 16, poet and essayist Jerry Wemple will be offering a reading and Q&A, just after noon at the Palmer. Jerry Wemple's most recent book is a series of linked, narrative poems; The Artemas Poems focuses on the … Continue reading Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum to Present Jerry Wemple