Events

2018-2019 Kanner Series

Please join us for a reading with author Zinzi Clemmons, co-founder of the literary journal Apogee and current Associate Editor at the Believer and a Contributing Editor to Literary Hub. Her debut novel, What We Lose (Viking 2017) was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Leonard...

When: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:30pm Where: -- Tony Hoagland writes that Mary Ruefle combines “the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens” in a “poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter.” Ruefle has written across several genres (including...

Please join us at the Westwind Journal Fall Quarter Reading with award-winning visiting Professor Juliana Wang (author of Home Remedies) and student writers Taylor Leig and Evelyn Jean-Louis.  Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on this Thursday, November 29th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students.

This Summer Travel Study program examines the experiences of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence, the beautiful Tuscan city where the Italian Renaissance originated. This info session is led by Program Director and English Department Faculty, Professor Chris Looby. He will discuss everything you need to know...

Drop by the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (235 Kaplan Hall) on Thursday, January 24th @5pm for Westwind’s Open Mic Night. Light refreshments will be provided.  

Please join us for a reading and Q&A with award winning author in residence Angela Flournoy.  Refreshments will be served. Hailed as an “assured and memorable novel” by the New York Review of Books, Flournoy’s book brings us a colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination...

Lecture with Kyle Grady

Ismail Khalidi in Conversation with Saree Makdisi