Events

2017-2018 Kanner Series

Rosanna Warren teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). She is the recipient of awards from the Academy...

You are cordially invited to drop by the English Reading Room on Tuesday, March 6th at 6pm for refreshments and a discussion with author Mary Gaitskill.

Make plans to drop by the ERR on Monday, March 12th from 5-7pm for a reading by some of our very talented creative writing students enrolled in English 137 this session.

2017-2018 Packer Series

The Shakespeare Association’s 46th Annual Meeting takes place in Los Angeles, California, between 28 and 31 March 2018. Full information about the meeting is available in the current Bulletin. A preliminary schedule for our 2018 annual conference is available here. Conference registration opens on 1 January 2018. Click here to register for the 46th Annual Meeting. Registration Fees For...

Ange Mlinko has written five books of poems, the most recent of which is Distant Mandate (FSG, 2017).  Her volume Starred Wire was a National Poetry Series selection, and Shoulder Season was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award.  A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism,...

Poet, novelist, essayist and UCLA Creative Writing Program Director Fred D'Aguiar is joined by award-winning poet, translator and UCLA Visiting Writer Sholeh Wolpé for a reading and discussion. About the Artists: Fred D'Aguiar writes across genres: poetry, fiction, plays and essays. He currently teaches at UCLA, where he directs the undergraduate creative writing program. His most recent novel,...

Please join us for a talk to be given by Sianne Ngai on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 4 PM in Humanities 193, sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary.  Please see the above flyer for more information.

Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt, translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star, and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern. The recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from...