Fall 2025
Monday, 10/20: Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Tuesday, 11/4: Harryette Mullen
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315听
Spring 2025
Wednesday, 2/12: Margaret Ross
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Tuesday, 3/18: Carolina Ebeid听
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315听
Thursday, 4/10: Cecily Nicholson
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Thursday, 4/22: Brandon Som听
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Fall 2024听
Thursday, 9/19: Robyn Schiff
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Wednesday, 10/9: Monica Youn听
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315听
Wednesday, 11/13: Douglas Kearney
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Thursday, 12/5: Daniel Borzutzky听
听 听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Spring 2024
2/22: Roger Reeves
听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
3/14: Jackie Wang
听 听 听6:00 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315听
4/10: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315听听
4/17: Tim Wood (2024 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry)
听 听 听5:30 PM, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler 315
Fall 2023
9/5: Faculty Reading 鈥� Solmaz Sharif, Cathy Park Hong, Geoffrey G. O鈥橞rien, C. S. Giscombe, and John Shoptaw
听 听 听6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
9/14: Claire Marie Stancek
听 听 听6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
9/28: Tommye Blount
听 听 听6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
10/11: John Keene
听 听 听6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
10/26: Victoria Chang
听 听 听6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
Spring 2023
听1/25:听Harmony Holiday
听 听听 2022-23 Holloway Lecturer in Residence
听 听听 6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
3/2:听Ed Roberson
听 听听 7:00pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
3/15:听Thalia Field
听 听听听6:30pm - via Zoom
4/4:听Hoa Nguyen and the troupe She Who Has No Masters
听 听听听6:30pm - via Zoom
4/13:听Victor Hernandez Cruz听听听
听 听听 5:00pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
4/19:听Julie Ezelle Patton听
听 听听听6:30pm听- 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
Fall 2022
11/3:听Rae Armantrout
10/13:听Mona Lisa Saloy
9/22:听Feliz Lucia Molina
9/6:听Faculty Reading
Spring 2022
3/2:听Jos Charles
3/17:听
4/6:听
4/20:听听
5/4:听听
听 听 听(2021/22 Holloway Lecturer in Residence)
Fall 2021听
9/8: 听
9/23: 听
10/7:听
10/20:听Cecily Nicholson鈥檚 Mixed Blood Talk:听real/located and restorative poetics 鈥� once a black rurality
10/21:听
Spring 2021听
2/11:听
2/18:听
3/18:听
4/8: cosponsored with El Grupo in Comparative Literature:听
4/12: with Mixed Blood,听
4/14:听听
Fall 2020听
September 10:听
September 22:听
October 8th:听
October 19th:听
October 20th:听
November 10th:听
Spring 2020
3/4: Magdalena Zurawski
3/18: Julian Brolaski
4/1: A memorial for Sean Bonney
4/16: Holloway poet Farid Matuk
4/22: Lynn Xu
Fall 2019听
9/11:听
9/26:听
10/7: Sawako Nakayasu with Sarah Payne (no video)
10/28: Don Bogen reads with Eliot D'Silva听
11/5: Erica Hunt reads with Dana Swensen
Spring 2019
February 6, 2019:听
February 13, 2019:听
March 13, 2019:听
April 17, 2019:听
Fall 2018听
August 29: Annual Faculty Reading, with Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O鈥橞rien, John Shoptaw, and Sara Nicholson
September 20:听
September 26:听
October 2:听听with Jared Robinson
October 18:听
Spring 2018
February 1:
February 21:听
February 28:听
April 24: Brenda Hillman with Jane Gregory
Fall 2017
August 31: Annual Faculty Reading (featuring Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O鈥橞rien, John Shoptaw, and giovani singleton)
September 14: giovanni singleton
October 11: Renee Gladman
November 8: Farid Matuk
November 17 (*4pm): Black Took Collective
Spring 2017
February 15:听
March 22: Simone White
April 12: Douglas Kearney
April 19:听
Fall 2016
September 7: 听(with C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O鈥橞rien, John Shoptaw, and Mary Szybist)
September 22: 听(Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics)
September 29: 听with Mary Mussman
October 19: 听听with Simona Schneider
Tonya Foster also gave a talk for the Mixed Blood Project: 鈥溾�楴othing to See Here鈥� and other Misdirections鈥�
October 27: 听with Eliot D鈥橲ilva
Related Events
November 1: Trevor Joyce听
November 9: ,听The听Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics
November 15: , 鈥淭he intersection of poetry, confession, ethics, and disobedience,鈥� a Bagley Wright Lecture
Spring 2016
February 10: 听with Christian Nagler
February 24:听听 ()
March 9:听听 ()
April 6:听
April 13:听听with听Mary Wilson
Fall 2015听
September 15: Annual听Faculty Reading 听(With C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O鈥橞rien, and John Shoptaw)
October 5:听/ Holloway Reading: 听&听
4:00pm: Mixed Blood Talk: 鈥淒rawing: The Body At Play, The Mind Holding Fat鈥�
6:00pm: Positive Knowledge, Live Music
6:30pm: Ronaldo V. Wilson with Aura Maru
October 22:听
4:00pm: Bagley Wright Lecture: 听鈥淭he O of Wonder: A Syzygy鈥�
6:00pm: 听Duo, Live Music
6:30pm: Srikanth Reddy with Ismail Muhammad
November 11:听
6:00pm: / John Wiitala Duo听
6:30pm:听Reading with Rachel Beck
Spring 2015
February 18th:听听(with Joshua Adam Anderson)
February 25th:听听(with Claire Marie Stancek)
March 18th:听听(with Daniel Benjamin)
April 8th:听听(with David Vandeloo)
Fall 2014听
September 4th: Annual Faculty Reading (with C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O鈥橞rien, Ed Roberson, and John Shoptaw)
September 9th: Hillary Gravendyk Memorial Event
September 18th: Ed Roberson
October 23rd: Mixed Blood / Holloway Reading :: C.D. Wright (with Christopher Miller)
November 4th: Clark Coolidge (with Alek Jeziorek)
November 20th: Tennessee Reed (with Ryan Ikeda)