Poetry @ Princeton

Fabio Finotti, Professor of Italian, University of Pennsylvania

Poet Ciaran Berry and novelist Nell Zink read from their work on Wednesday, April 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The event, part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, is free and open to the public.

Marilynne Robinson is a novelist and scholar. She is a longtime professor at the University of Iowa. She is well known for her novels Housekeeping, Home, Gilead, and Lila, which address questions of faith, American history, the frontier, and the dramas and secrets of community and family. She has also written distinguished essays on nuclear […]

Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7PM Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall Ellipses Poetry Slam Team, a select group of Princeton students who are dedicated to making the spoken word a celebrated art in the Princeton community, will present the preview event before violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Paul Lewis take the stage to perform works by Schubert […]

Held all day in 245 East Pyne, the conference will feature numerous panels, including one entitled, "19th Century Literature: Poetics, Ethics, Politics." For the full schedule, see here.

Artist Marina Sagona, Jhumpa Lahiri (Program in Creative Writing), and Simone Marchesi (Department of French and Italian) will present a roundtable on the women in Dante's Divine Comedy on Monday April 11, at 4:30 in the Chancellor Green Rotunda.

Maggie Nelson is an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of books such as Bluets, The Argonauts, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, and Jane: A Murder. The Art of Cruelty was a 2011 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and recipient of […]

The life and times of American poet and mythologist Robert Bly is explored through interviews and archival footage. A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY examines the prolific poet’s unique voice and a life dedicated to activism. Featuring interviews with Louise Erdrich, Garrison Keillor, Martin Sheen, and Mark Rylance. The screening will be introduced by poet and […]

Toni Morrison Lectures Commencement Rites at the Tree of Creativity: A Lecture in Three Acts Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet and playwright, will deliver the 2016 Toni Morrison Lectures Presenters:  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka will deliver the 2016 Toni Morrison Lectures. The series of three talks which he has named “Commencement Rites at […]

Poet Ocean Vuong and four seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University read from their work on Friday, April 22 at Labyrinth Books. The reading is part of the Emerging Writers Reading Series, which showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special […]

Faber Lecture on Stalin, Akhmatova, and Shakespeare  The final Eberhard L. Faber IV 1915 Memorial Lecture in the Council of the Humanities will be given by Alexander Zholkovsky (USC). Slavic Languages and Literatures will host the lecture entitled Who Organized The Standing Ovation?: Stalin, Akhmatova, And Shakespeare.

Selected students from spring courses in Creative Writing will read from their work in fiction, poetry, screenwriting and literary translation at 4:30 p.m. at Chancellor Green Rotunda as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Sheera Talpaz (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature) Respondent: Professor Esther Schor (Professor of English and Inaugural Behrman Professor in the Council of the Humanities)   For information, please contact Valerie Kanka at vjkanka@princeton.edu Works%20In%20Progress%20Colloquium_Spring%202016  

Inventory, Princeton's Journal of Literary Translation, is 6 years old! The Editors invite you to come celebrate issue N°6 on Thursday, April 28, at 4:30pm in McCormick 101. The new issue features translations of Esther Cross, Raymond Queneau, Robert Desnos, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, among others. Issues of Inventory N°6 will be available at the launch.

Calligrammes is a new song cycle for soprano Ariadne Greif and composer / accordionist Albert Behar that celebrates the centennial of Guillaume Apollinaire’s visual poetry. Inspired by Dadaism, Futurism, and Cubism, Apollinaire set his poems in the shapes of doves, flowers, and clocks. Behar’s compositions bring Apollinaire’s poetic spontaneity into the musical realm, interpreting the […]