Poetry News & Events

Lying In, a new book of poems from alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15, is out now from Milkweed Editions. 

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, a new memoir from Associate Professor Shane McCrae, is coming this summer from Simon & Schuster. 

When There Was Light, a second collection of poetry from alumna Carlie Hoffman ’16, is out now from Four Way Books. 

Here, we talk with Professor Shane McCrae about why true poets are always abandoning themselves, how he starts writing poems, and the best ways to find one's own poetry.

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 annually awards $20,000 to an exceptional poet.

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

Alumni Matthew Gellman ’18, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, and E. J. Koh ’13 were named among the 2023 Creative Writing Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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 Moonlight at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson.

Associate Professor Shane McCrae’s book Cain Named the Animal (Little Brown, 2022) has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, one of the most influential awards for new poetry in the United Kingdom and Ireland.