Creative Writing & Poetry and Poetics Events

The university has moved to remote learning for Spring quarter 2020. Follow us here to stay updated on our virtual events.

You may watch our live and past recordings of our new virtual reading series, Writers in Residence, on our YouTube channel.

Upcoming Events

Exploratory Translation Colloquium: Translation and Decolonization

January 20, 2021 6:00PM

Exploratory Translation Colloquium: East-West, On-Off Page Transit

February 2, 2021 6:00PM

History & Forms of Lyric with Derek Attridge

February 8, 2021 12:45PM

Online

Exploratory Translation Colloquium: Language Justice, and Translation Along Border Zones

February 16, 2021 6:00PM

Offen Poetry Prize Reading with Krista Franklin

February 17, 2021 1:00PM

Online

On The Cusp: Making Work Move and Matter

February 22, 2021 6:00PM

Crowdcast

Christopher Kempf - "What Though the Field Be Lost"

March 2, 2021 6:00PM

Online

Exploratory Translation Colloquium: Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness

March 2, 2021 6:00PM

Literary Arts Lab Chicago

March 31, 2021 6:00PM

Online

Past Events

Dec 3, 6:00 pm

"So Forth" Poetry Reading by Rosanna Warren
Nov 18, 6:00 pm

"Mental Traveler" Reading by WJT Mitchell
Nov 12, 7:00 pm

Elizabeth Bradfield & Antonia Contro: "Theorem"
Oct 12, 6:00 pm

Author Talk: Maryse Meijer, "The Seventh Mansion"
Oct 9, 4:30 pm

Creative Writing Program Open House
Jun 11, 6:00 pm

Ling Ma in Conversation with Paola Del Toro
May 20, 6:00 pm

Fred Moten in Conversation with Theaster Gates
May 14, 5:00 pm

Writers in Residence: Baird Harper & Augustus Rose