Events

Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child

A Collective Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Elaine Kahn. Register for this event here. Elaine Kahn is the author of Women in Public (City Lights, 2015) and Romance or The End (Soft Skull, 2020). Writing has appeared in the LA Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Granta,...

A Collective Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Danielle Evans. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and...

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her...

This event has been canceled. Join the Hammer, UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation in celebrating its long-standing poetry series for Poetry Month with the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading. This year’s judge is the distinguished poet Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 3 Sections, Poetry Editor for The Paris Review, and Director of non-fiction...