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 a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Jane: A Murder was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. She was awarded an Arts Writers grant in 2007 from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2011, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Recipient of a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Nonfiction.

Prof. Gayle Salamon will join Maggie for the Q&A portion of the event.

The Nassau Literary Review — Princeton’s oldest publication and the second-oldest undergraduate literary magazine in the country — is now open to submissions for their Spring 2016 issue!  Poetry submissions, as well as short stories, novel excerpts, screenplays, art, and photography, are all welcomed.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM on February 27th.

To read past issues, click here. For more information on submissions, visit their website here.

Last Fall, Marie Howe delivered a beautiful and thought-provoking Holmes Lecture at Princeton, entitled “No Not Nothing Never: Interruption, Contradiction and Negation as a Way To Push Open the Door You Didn’t Know Was There,” a video recording of which can be viewed here.

This Spring, Princeton undergraduates are working with Marie Howe in her advanced poetry workshop in the Creative Writing Program at The Lewis Center.

Marie Howe is the 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State and an award-winning author of three volumes of poetry. Her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2009) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other collections of poetry include What the Living Do (1998), which was praised by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the five best poetry collections of the year, and The Good Thief (Persea, 1988), which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. She was also awarded the 2015 Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her other awards include grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Howe has taught writing at Tufts University and Dartmouth College and is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University.