In the Creative Writing Program’s latest installment of the “Poetry in Conversation” speaker series, lecturer Richie Hofmann read from and discussed his 2015 poetry collection “Second Empire.” Through ...

LET’S BEGIN by talking about meaning in poetry. It’s always the dragon at the gate whenever you approach the subject. Every poet, I suppose, tries to define for himself what poetry is all about. It’s ...

On November 20 th it was a cool and dark evening in the CHC events hall. Chairs were filling up as chatter filled the room. They soon grew silent when Mari Castañeda walked to the podium to introduce ...

Join us for a conversation about “ekphrasis,” the practice of describing images using words. While observing and discussing Hero and Leander by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), we ...

Sandra McPherson is the acclaimed author of 21 books of poetry, including the National Book Award-nominated The Year of My Birth, and her latest, The 5150 Poems (Nine Mile Press). She is a retired ...

Bhupeen is a prominent Nepali poet, essayist, and novelist known for his powerful contributions to contemporary Nepali literature. He has published three collections of poems, a collection of essays, ...