September 20, 2023
Visit Ellen’s Website Ellen mentioned quite a few authors, books, and quotes during the lecture here are some of them. The Situation and The Story by Vivian Gornick Dog Years by Mark Doty Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns The Art of Fiction by John Gardner “A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to…
August 13, 2023
Visit Kimiko’s Website This lecture was loosely based on an essay originally published in the American Poetry Review. You can get a copy here.
August 10, 2023
Presented By Emily Colin Download the Slides
July 24, 2023
Presented by Ley Taylor Johnson Visit Ley’s Website Download the Slides Download Ley’s Book
June 16, 2023
Presented by Kwame Dawes Get a Copy of Nebraska
June 14, 2023
Presented by Eugenia Leigh Buy Eugenia’s Book View the Slides Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two poetry collections. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest. Her latest book, Bianca, was released this March. You can order…
Presented by Danté Stewart Buy the Book Danté Stewart is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment, and elsewhere. He received the Georgia Author of the Year Award…
January 23, 2023
Presented by Michael Kleber-Diggs Buy Michael’s Book: Worldly Things Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions, 2021), won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. The New York Times wrote: “The full-throated poems in this debut collection see the world whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of…