Reading Series
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Please check back at the end of September after our website migration. All events are also on our calendar. Email nora.lewis@emory.edu with any questions.
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
All events are free and open to the public.
FALL 2022
Jamaica Kincaid, prose writer
Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies
Nuar Alsadir, poet, writer, psychoanalyst
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Reading: 6:30 p.m. EST
Location: Harland Cinema in the Alumni Memorial University Center (AMUC)
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Colloquium: 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST
Location: N301 Callaway (Kemp Malone Library)
Fellows Reading
Sanjena Sathian, 2022-24 Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction
Maya Marshall, 2021-23 Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Reading: 6:30 p.m. EST
Location: Harland Cinema in the Alumni Memorial University Center (AMUC)
SPRING 2023
Fernando Valverde and Carolyn Forché, poets
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Wednesday, February 8, 2023Reading: 6:30pm, followed by a book signing
Location: Presentation Room (Oxford Road Building)
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Poetry, Discussion, and Q&A: 3:30-7pm
(student engagement event with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón)
Location: Ackerman Hall (Carlos Museum top floor)
Two sessions designed for students but open to all with Fernando Valverde, Carolyn Forché, and Ada Limón.
- 3:30-4:30 Writing Poetry in the Landscape of America Today. Interactive session with a small workshop component.
- 4:30-5:00 Refreshments / Break
- 5:00-6:00 Writing Poetry and/in Translation. Interactive session with time for conversation with students.
- 6:00-7:00 Reception
Co-sponsored
Raymond Danowski Poetry Reading Series: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Saturday, February 11, 20233pm in Glenn Auditorium
Register HERE
Open Mic Night
(led by Creative Writing majors)
Friday, March 24, 2023
6-8pm
White Hall 206
Awards Night
Selected readings by winners of the Creative Writing Program and English Department's Annual Student Writing Contests. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, April 19, 20237:30-9pm
Emory Student Center, Multipurpose Room #4 (ESC N104)
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Directions to and parking at Emory
The closest parking area is the visitors section of the Fishburne Parking Deck (1672 North Decatur Road), which is located next to the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.