Poetry @ Princeton

Where Can I Imagine You Have Been?: A Reading and Conversation with Claudia Rankine Award-winning poet/critic Claudia Rankine reads from her work on Wednesday, February 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. After the reading, Tracy K. Smith, director of the Program in Creative Writing, will join Claudia Rankine for an onstage […]

We will take turns reading from this magnificent work, and proceed across twelve books, from beginning to end, to meditate together on John Milton's fundamental questions of knowledge and temptation, predestination, sex and gender, the order of things, the origins of evil and the fate of mankind.  Please contact Russ Leo (rleo@princeton.edu) if you have […]

The Lunch Series of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication presents Michael Wachtel (Slavic Languages and Literatures) discussing Translation, Imitation, Adaptation, or Mutilation? Robert Lowell's Renderings of European Poets on Monday, February 22nd at 12 noon in 216 Aaron Burr.

With the advent of large scale digitization, our understanding of literary production, circulation, and reception can expand beyond the contours of the traditional canon to look at the large scale archive. This talk draws on bibliographic data mining and methods of exploratory data visualization to examine the relationships between the literary canon and physical and […]

Fiction writer Alexander Chee and four seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University read from their work on Friday, February 26 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 […]