Poetry @ Princeton

Novelist Edwidge Danticat and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass read from their work on Wednesday, March 9, 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.

Michael Ferrier, Professor of French at Chuo University, Tokyo and winner of the 2012 Prix, will deliver a lecture "“Vollard, Baudelaire, Albius, trois regards sur l'identité française” on Wednesday March 9 at 4:30pm in Chancellor Green 105.

The Department of German will host a lecture by Winfried Menninghas from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt.

Gianfranco Agosti Lecture Sapienza Università di Roma "Poetry and Religion in Late Antiquity" Location: 106 McCormick Date/Time: 03/10/16 at 4:30 pm - 03/10/16 at 6:00 pm Category: Colloquium Department: Classics

A musical presentation and conversation about the intersections between literary, musical, and cultural currents of the African and Asian diasporas in the Atlantic World.   Organized by Tao Leigh Goffe Join the Department of African American Studies and the Program in American Studies for a conversation about the intersections between the literary, musical, and cultural […]

Margaret Cohen--Andrew B. Hammond, Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization and a Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of French and Italian--will deliver "Environmental Poetics: The Case of Underwater Suspense" on Tuesday March 22 at 4:30 in East Pyne 010.

Professor Karen Emmerich (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature) Respondent: Cate Reilly (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature For more information, please contact Valerie Kanka vjkanka@princeton.edu   Works%20In%20Progress%20Colloquium_Spring%202016

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing presents a Reading by Salgado Maranhão  Award-winning Brazilian poet and his translator Alexis Levitin present poetry reading Who/What:  Reading by poet Salgado Maranhão and his translator Alexis Levitin of Maranhão’s work in both Portuguese and English When: Thursday, March 24 at 4:30 p.m. Where: McCosh Hall, Room 28, on the Princeton University […]

Princeton University Fund for Irish Studies presents “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916” Talk by University of York Literature Professor Matthew Campbell Who:  Matthew Campbell, Professor of Literature at the University of York What:  “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916,” a talk presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies When: […]

Poet Eduardo Corral and four seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University read from their work on Friday, March 25 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 guests. The reading […]

Meredith L McGill, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, will deliver a lecture at Princeton University. She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1837-1853 (2003) a study of nineteenth-century American resistance to tight control over intellectual property. She has edited two collections of essays: “Taking Liberties with the Author” (2013), […]