Poetry News & Events

Chariot, a fourth collection of poetry from Writing Professor Timothy Donnelly, is coming this spring from Wave Books. 

Associate Professor Shane McCrae has been awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize, a prestigious accolade from the Academy of Arts and Letters, which

The swailing, a debut poetry collection from alumnus Patrick James Errington ’15, will be released this spring from McGill-Queen's Univers

Alumni Matthew Gellman ’18,Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19

Four Way Books is set to publish If Some God Shakes Your House by Writing alumna Jennifer Franklin '96 in March.

Essays, edited by Associate Professor and Head of Poetry Dorothea Lasky, will be released by Essay Press.

Writing Assistant Professor Lynn Xu will partake in a solo exhibition of her book-length poem And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of M

Associate Professor Shane McCrae’s book Cain Named the Animal (Little Brown, 2022) has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Col

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive, a new memoir by alumna Lynn Melni

The winners of the 2022 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers were announced this month, among them alumnus Patrick James Errington ’15 as

The debut novel of poet, translator, and alumna E.J. Koh ’13 will be published by Tin House Books, arriving in summer/fall 2023.

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, Poetry Alumna Laima Vincė '94 started a project to amplify the voices of Ukrainian women who are curr