Reading Events

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...

In support of our graduate student workers, we are postponing the Morris Gray Poetry Reading with Jericho Brown to Fall 2022. Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of...

Explore creative writing through the voices of our faculty and students.

RSVP is required. You can register for this event here. Please join us for our new lecture series hosted by the Creative Writing Faculty in the Harvard English Department inviting writers to discuss their work. Featuring Rachel Cohen and Katharine Smyth...

A reading and discussion to celebrate the publication of Enelow and Levine's A Discourse on Method. Moderated by Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature. Register HERE. Shonni Enelow is the author...