RESCHEDULED AFTER SNOW DAY 2/7: Poet Andi Stout hails from from Belington, WV, and teaches writing in Penn State's English Department. Her first book, Tiny Horses Don’t Get A Choice, is set … Continue reading Andi Stout Reading, Art of Poetry Series
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica, and The Mare. She has also written three story collections: Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, … Continue reading Mary Gaitskill Reading, Fisher Family Writer in Residence
Gabeba Baderoon is the author of several poetry collections including A Hundred Silences, which was a finalist for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award, The Dream in the … Continue reading Gabeba Baderoon Reading, Art of Poetry Series
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 … 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 … 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, … 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 … Continue reading Sara J. Grossman Reading, Art of Poetry Series
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. … Continue reading Thoughts on Styrofoam–A Poetry Reading by Evelyn Reilly