Poetry Readings

The Harvard Department of English presents the Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring Tina Chang. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. on Monday, November 3rd for a poetry reading from the author's forthcoming collection, Lion , followed by...

The Harvard Department of English presents the Stratis Haviaras Poetry Reading with Sherwin Bitsui and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. for a poetry reading and Q and A from the authors with an introduction by...

The Harvard Department of English presents the Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring Natalie Diaz and Shane McCrae. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. for a poetry reading and Q and A from the authors with an introduction by Professor...

Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and...

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022. The author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An...

Jos Charles is author of a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld (Milkweed Editions, 2018) , a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah, and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She is the founding...

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please...