Poetry @ Princeton

Poetry Reading and Conversation with National Poet Laureate Billy Collins and President Barnes November 2 at 7:00 p.m. Iain R Torrance Atrium, Princeton Theological Seminary Library   M. Craig Barnes, the seventh president of Princeton Theological Seminary, will engage in a public conversation with former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins about his work, the […]

Poet Wendy Xu and seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University read from their work on Friday, November 11 at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street in Princeton. Featured student readers are Luisa Banchoff, Ben Goodman, Cai Marshall, Shannon Osaka and Margaret Wright. The C.K. Williams Reading […]

As part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, bestselling author Stephen King and writer Eileen Myles read from their work on Wednesday, November 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. This is a free event but ticket reservations are required.

Friday, Nov. 18th Seth Lerer, Dept of Literature, UCSD "Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Poetry and the Past in the Late Plays" Sponsored by Renaissance Colloquium @ 4:30 PM B14 McCosh Hall, Hinds Library (basement level) Reception to follow

Tuesday Nov. 29 6pm Labyrinth Bookstore First coined in 1628, the term 'blackacre' is a legal fiction, a hypothetical estate. It is also a password among lawyers marking one’s initiation into a centuries-old tradition of legal indoctrination. Monica Youn’s fascinating, multifaceted new collection, "Blackacre," uses the term to suggest landscape, legacy, what is allotted to […]

Bob Perelman: A Reading Wednesday, 11/30 4:30pm Sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium. Contact Cate Mahoney for more details. Location TBA.

A talk with Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz Director, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland   Sa’di (b. 1203), the master of eloquence, the lover (mystic and otherwise), the seasoned traveler, and the maker and teacher of ethical rules has a complex poetic persona with multiple faces, some quite colorful. And just as his language does […]