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March 14, 2019

First Books: Maureen Aitken, Caitlin Bailey, Donte Collins Plus Reading of...

Read more about First Books: Maureen Aitken, Caitlin Bailey, Donte Collins Plus Reading of Michelle McNamara

The Creative Writing Program presents its annual reading with debut authors! Hear writers Maureen Aitken, Caitlin Bailey, and Donte Collins read from and discuss their first books. In...

April 4, 2019

Jorie Graham: An Evening of Poetry

Read more about Jorie Graham: An Evening of Poetry

The Esther Freier Lectures in Literature series presents Jorie Graham, “one of our great poets,” as The New York Times notes, one of the most influential poets of the past 50 years. Graham...

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