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 ...

X-ray to float on. Yeah. I do too. I’d say a zillion yeses to anyone for that. — Mary Szybist, from Incarnadine, Graywolf Press, 2013. When I read this poem, I think of helping my father work on ...

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 ...

What: Claudia Rankine, poet, playwright and author of “Citizen: An American Lyric,” a poetic meditation on race, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, will discuss mounting ...

Join us for a conversation with acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky, whose poems bear witness to our times and create a space for empathy and compassion in resistance to oppression. Kaminsky is the author of ...

The events where Australian readers have long gathered to hear writers speak about their work are often annual (like ...

Paul Tran’s debut full-length poetry collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling” (Penguin Books, 2022), just dropped in February, but their poetry stretches beyond that slim and beautiful volume. They are ...