Public Poetry Project

Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States

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, and William Brockman, the Paterno Family Librarian for Literature. Reading and poster signing, poets to be announced.

Mary E. Rolling Reading series presents Katie Fallon

Assembly Room, Nittany Lion Inn

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 well as two books for children. Her essays and articles have appeared in a variety of literary journals and magazines, and she has taught writing … Continue reading Mary E. Rolling Reading series presents Katie Fallon

Book Release: Michael Don’s Partners & Strangers

Webster's Bookstore Cafe PA, United States

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

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High School Writing Day at Penn State

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

2019 Emily Dickinson Lectureship: Terrance Hayes

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

Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum

Palmer Museum of Art University Park, PA

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 and Q&A, just after noon at the Palmer. Mills' most recent, prize-winning book, Hawk Parable, engages with the history of the US bombing of Nagasaki during WWII. For … Continue reading Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum

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