Creative Writing Program at Penn State

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 →

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Third Voice, (Tupelo Press, 2017), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), and domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award. She lives in Erie, CO, and teaches … Continue reading Reading by Poet and Penn State Grad Ruth Ellen Kocher →

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City. Her work appears in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is fiction editor of The Kenyon Review and teaches at Grand Valley State University and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Her debut novel … Continue reading Reading by Fiction Writer Caitlin Horrocks (Rolling Reading Series) →

James Brasfield is the author of two poetry collections, Ledger of Crossroads and Infinite Altars, both available from LSU Press, and is translator of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha. Twice a Senior Fulbright Fellow, he has received fellowships in poetry from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a … Continue reading Poet James Brasfield to Read (Rolling Reading Series) →

South African poet and Penn State professor, Gabeba Baderoon, is to read her new work as part of "Out Loud" at the Bellefonte Art Museum (113 North Allegheny St., Bellefonte, PA 16823) on Friday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association (bellefontearts.org) and the Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre … Continue reading South African Poet and Penn State Professor Gabeba Baderoon to Read at the Bellefonte Art Museum →

Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels Good on Paper (Melville House 2016) and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville House 2014). Two dozen of her stories have appeared in the Paris Review, One Story, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. She has worked in five continents but now makes her home in Brooklyn, … Continue reading Fiction Writer Rachel Cantor to Read as part of Rolling Reading Series →

Sarah Manguso is the author of four books of prose including Ongoingness, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians, an investigation of friendship and suicide; and The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease. She is also the author of the poetry collections Siste Viator and The … Continue reading Reading by Sarah Manguso, Fisher Family Writer in Residence →

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Readings by selected Pennsylvania poets, including the Penn State English Department's James Brasfield. All poets will sign their books and (free!) posters after the event. See Facebook event for more details.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as Poems in Conversation and a Conversation, a chapbook in collaboration with … Continue reading Reading by Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon →