Past Events

In this seminar, we discuss the philosophies and techniques of "flow" in poetry through a variety of historical and critical contexts including Islamic mysticism, the Black Arts movement, contemporary hip...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on the negative space that surrounds and shapes both the...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore poetry comics, a hybrid form that presents the compressed, evocative...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In February, we will read and discuss Rue by Kathryn Nuernberger. Registration is required for this event, and opens...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on the diction of poetry, exploring how word choice and...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Exile,” with Leonora Simonovis. In this session, we will focus on poets in translation that explore the notion of exile,...

Join us for a live virtual reading with George Abraham, Diamond Forde, Nabila Lovelace and  Fargo Tbakhi.

Franklin & Marshall Visiting Professor of English Su Cho guest edited the fall 2021 issues of Poetry. Please join Su and the Writers House at F&M for a panel discussion and reading by Destiny Birdsong,...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore ephemeral poetry, poems composed on a variety of objects and...

Poetry Foundation and Poetry Ireland present the first in a series of transatlantic events, a reading and conversation with acclaimed Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa and award-winning American poet Teri...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore personification, the device that transforms the non-human (the animal, the...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In January, we will read and discuss Imagine Us, The Swarm by Muriel Leung. Registration is required for this...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “In the Voice and in the Deep, Blues Poetry,” created and led by Jorrell Watkins. In this session, we will...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the epistle, a poem addressed to a specific person and...

Join us for a reading featuring the 2020 Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artists, as we mark the launch of a new essay series, Poetry & Practice.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session dedicated to speculative poetry, we will explore poems dedicated to fantasy, science...

Join us for a live virtual reading with Kofi Antwi, Jesse K Baer, Louise Akers, and Tariq Shah.

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

Join us for a live virtual reading with Saleem Hue Penny, Hayley Kolding, Lillian Gardner, and Precious Musa.