Wednesday, September 13, 2017 7:00 p.m. Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building Library of Congress Director and Professor of Creative Writing Tracy K. Smith will give her inaugural reading as the 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She will be joined by National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who will open the event by […]
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:30 p.m. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center FREE and open to the public 2017-18 Hodder Fellow and poet Eduardo Corral reads with Professor of Creative Writing and fiction writer Yiyun Li on Wednesday, September 20, to open the 2017-18 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series presented by the Program in Creative […]
Opening Mic at the Trenton Free Public Library Poetry Cafe For the last six months, the English Department and Labyrinth Books have been working with the Trenton Free Public Library to build a poetry collection for the library’s new Poetry Cafe. The Cafe, a reading room in the library’s building on Academy Street, will not […]
Sponsored by the Princeton University English Department and the Bain-Swiggett Fund "Rape and the Rise of the Novel" at 30: A Master Class A day-long symposium in honor of Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor of Poetry Frances Ferguson's groundbreaking 1987 essay, "Rape and the Rise of the Novel." Friday, Sept. 29th McCormick 106 9:30 AM - 5:00 […]
Friday, September 29, 2017 6:00 p.m. Labyrinth Books, Princeton FREE and open to the public Award-winning poet Vincent Toro and creative writing seniors Fiona Bell, Eric Huang, Sang Lee, and Sarah Reeves read from their work at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and […]