Events

A 24 hr Celebration of Literature

David Lehman is a poet, literary critic, editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry, and creator of the Best American Poetry series. Lee Upton praises Lehman’s new volume, Playlist, in these terms: “What a gorgeous and ambitious poem … an elegy, a calendar, an enactment of beauty, a tribute to singers and musicians and...

The graduate students of the UCLA English Department will be holding their annual Southland Conference on May 10th and 11th, 2019. This year's topic is EXTRA//ORDINARY and the keynote speakers will be Professor Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) and Professor Rei Terada (UC Irvine). Paper proposals are being accepted now from any discipline. For more information...

The graduate students of the UCLA English Department will be holding their annual Southland Conference on May 10th and 11th, 2019. This year's topic is EXTRA//ORDINARY and the keynote speakers will be Professor Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) and Professor Rei Terada (UC Irvine). Paper proposals are being accepted now from any discipline. For more information...

2018-2019 Kanner Series

Come relax and enjoy the work of student poets of color interested in dispelling toxic stereotypes and creating a transformative dialogue through poetry.  All are welcome!

Nick Laird “has the rare ability to mate tragedy and comedy in a single line without making either side feel cheap for it” (Michael Chabon, Interview). Laird has written screenplays and three novels, as well as four books of poems. His most recent volume of poetry, Feel Free, was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot...

Space is limited and UCLA graduate students will be given priority. Please register by emailing vania@english.ucla.edu with your name, institutional affiliation, and an indication of whether or not you are a graduate student. Once the workshop is full we will generate a waitlist.  

Celebrating the legacy and radical optimism of Walt Whitman

Celebrating Undergraduate Student Research in English Courses