Creative Writing Program at Penn State

Brian Brodeur is the author of five collections of poetry including Every Hour Is Late (2019) and the chapbook Local Fauna (2015). Recent poems and essays appear in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Times Literary Supplement, and The Writer's Chronicle. Brian is founder and coordinator of How a Poem Happens, an … Continue reading Red Weather Reading Series to Host Brian Brodeur →

Camille-Yvette Welsch is the author of FULL and The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom. Her work has appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Zone 3, Menacing Hedge, and many other publications. She is a Teaching Professor of English at Penn State and the director of the High School Writing Day at … Continue reading Red Weather Reading Series to Host Camille-Yvette Welsch →

Callan Wink works as a fly fishing guide in Livingston, MT. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men's Journal, The Best American Short Stories Anthology and others. He is the recipient of a NEA creative writing fellowship and a Wallace Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. His first book of stories, Dog … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series to Present Callan Wink →

Todd Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Native Species (2019) and Winterkill (2016), both published by Michigan State University Press. He’s the winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year silver and bronze awards. Davis is professor of English and environmental studies … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series to Present Todd Davis →

Emily Grosholz teaches philosophy at Penn State and has been an advisory editor for The Hudson Review since 1984. She has published eight books of poetry. The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2017, and Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry was published in 2018. Her 2014 book of poetry, … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series to Present Emily Rolfe Grosholz (1/30/20) →

Paula Closson Buck’s third book of poetry, You Cannot Shoot a Poem, was published by Louisiana State University Press in November 2018. Closson Buck is the author of two other books of poems, The Acquiescent Villa (1998) and Litanies Near Water (2008), both from Louisiana State University Press, and a novel, Summer on the Cold War Planet, from Fomite Press (2015). Her … Continue reading Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum to Present Paula Closson Buck (2/5/20) →

Chet’la Sebree is the author of Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize. Sebree is an assistant professor and the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts at Bucknell University. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and her work … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series to Present Chet’la Sebree (2/13/20) →

Gabriel Green is a poet, musician, and scholar (in that order, depending on the day) from Pontiac, Michigan. He currently resides in State College, Pennsylvania, where he is a dual-title Ph.D. candidate at Penn State, studying English and African American/African Diaspora studies. His work has been featured in WusGood!, The Amistad, and Peregrine. The Magical Negro Reveals His Secret, … Continue reading POSTPONED: Red Weather Reading Series Presents Gabriel Green (3/16/20) →

Aldon Nielsen is a poet and critic born in Grand Island, Nebraska. He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the Pennsylvania State University ‘s Department of English. Educated in Washington, D.C. at Federal City College and George Washington University, Nielsen has taught at Howard University, San Jose State University, the … Continue reading CANCELLED: Art of Poetry at Palmer Museum to Present Aldon Nielsen (3/25/19) →

ZOOM Link to Event  Toby Thompson is the author of six books, ​the most recent of which is Fired On: Targeting Western American Art, published in March by Bangtail Press. The third in a … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Toby Thompson (Virtual Event) →