Creative Writing Program at Penn State

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) →

This webinar is the fourth in the "Unprecedented" series, sponsored by CALS, The Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State. Join Penn State Professor and poet Shara McCallum, along … Continue reading American Women Poets and the Autobiographical Lyric (3/19/21 webinar w/Natalie Diaz, Shara McCallum, and Diana Khoi Nguyen) →

Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence--Virtual Reading Cary C Holladay Click to join: ZOOM Link to Event Cary Holladay’s publications include eight volumes of fiction, most recently Brides in the Sky: Stories and … Continue reading A Reading by Cary Holladay: Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence (Virtual Event–3/25/21) →

Join Penn State English Professors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Shara McCallum for an intimate look at the biography and craft of Jane Rohrer, the Field Language poet whose words often revealed complex … Continue reading Palmer Museum Conversation and Poetry Reading: Truths of a Woman’s Life (4/1/21) →

James Charlesworth’s first novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, was published in 2019. He is a frequent contributor of music-related essays for marchxness.com, and his short fiction has appeared in Natural Bridge and … Continue reading Alums Leah Huizar and James Charlesworth Kick Off 2021-22 Rolling Reading Series →