Creative Writing Program at Penn State

SPRING 2023 POETRY SALON: Professor Shara McCallum and students in her graduate poetry workshop (ENGL 513) will host a series of poetry readings during the spring 2023 semester. Poets will offer brief readings from their books and engage in conversation with Professor McCallum and the students. These events are open to anyone (other faculty & … Continue reading Poetry Salon: Mihaela Moscaliuc & Michael Waters →

SPRING 2023 POETRY SALON: Professor Shara McCallum and students in her graduate poetry workshop (ENGL 513) will host a series of poetry readings during the spring 2023 semester. Poets will offer brief readings from their books and engage in conversation with Professor McCallum and the students. These events are open to anyone (other faculty & … Continue reading Poetry Salon: David Keplinger & Jenny Molberg →

Abby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, drawings, and projects exploring reproductive politics. Since 2017, she has worked as the founding director of Ridgelines Language Arts, a non-profit providing expert language arts instruction outside of academic institutions and to those who are marginalized in the … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Abby Minor →

              Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; … Continue reading Natasha Trethewey to Read as 2023 Dickinson Lecturer →

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Kimberly Q. Andrews, a Filipinx-American poet and critic, is author of Between, winner of the New Women’s Voices award, and A Brief History of Fruit, winner of the Akron Prize for poetry. Her … Continue reading Poetry Salon with Kimberly Q. Andrews →

Kelle Groom is the author of the memoirs How to Live and I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (B&N Discover Great New Writers and NYT Book … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Kelle Groom →

Chika Unigwe is a Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College, Milledgeville, and the author of several celebrated works of fiction, including On Black Sister’s Street, which won the NLNG … Continue reading Rolling Reading Series Presents Chika Unigwe →

    Julianna Baggott has published over twenty books, some pseudonymously, including Pure and Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She … Continue reading Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence Julianna Baggott to Read →