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Creative Writing Program

Immersing students in contemporary and historical literature, giving them space to create within and across genres as part of a vibrant urban arts community.

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Recent News

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Douglas Kearney Awarded Griffin International Poetry Prize

The professor's poetry collection Sho is "the crowning achievement of Kearney’s body of work to date," according to the judges' citation.

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New Pages Summer 2022

Explore recent publications from English and Creative Writing faculty, students, and alums!

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Remembering Professor Charlie Sugnet

The dynamic professor's curiosity and commitment to students made him a beloved teacher, inventive administrator, and unconventional scholar.

Upcoming Events

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October 19, 2022

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier: Poems in conversation

The US Poet Laureate reads and talks with the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.