Fall 2023
9/5: Faculty Reading — Solmaz Sharif, Cathy Park Hong, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, C. S. Giscombe, and John Shoptaw
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
9/14: Claire Marie Stancek
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
9/28: Tommye Blount
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
10/11: John Keene
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
10/26: Victoria Chang
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
Spring 2023
1/25: Harmony Holiday
2022-23 Holloway Lecturer in Residence
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
3/2: Ed Roberson
7:00pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
3/15: Thalia Field
6:30pm - via Zoom
4/4: Hoa Nguyen and the troupe She Who Has No Masters
6:30pm - via Zoom
4/13: Victor Hernandez Cruz
5:00pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
4/19: Julie Ezelle Patton
6:30pm - 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room)
Fall 2022
11/3: Rae Armantrout
10/13: Mona Lisa Saloy
9/22: Feliz Lucia Molina
9/6: Faculty Reading
Spring 2022
3/2: Jos Charles
3/17: Asiya Wadud(link is external)
4/6: Emily Skillings(link is external)
4/20: Benjamin Krusling(link is external)
5/4: Karen Solie(link is external)
(2021/22 Holloway Lecturer in Residence)
Fall 2021
9/8: Faculty Reading(link is external)
9/23: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon(link is external)
10/7: Divya Victor(link is external)
10/20: Cecily Nicholson’s Mixed Blood Talk: real/located and restorative poetics – once a black rurality
10/21: Cecily Nicholson
Spring 2021
2/11: Jonah Mixon Webster(link is external)
2/18: Ginger Ko(link is external)
3/18: francine harris(link is external)
4/8: cosponsored with El Grupo in Comparative Literature: Anna Deeny Morales and Roberto Tejada(link is external)
4/12: with Mixed Blood, Jen Hofer(link is external)
4/14: Jen Hofer
Fall 2020
September 10: Faculty reading(link is external)
September 22: Don Bogen(link is external)
October 8th: Metta Sáma(link is external)
October 19th: Bhanu Kapil’s Mixed Blood Talk(link is external)
October 20th: Bhanu Kapil(link is external)
November 10th: Bob Perelman
Spring 2020
3/4: Magdalena Zurawski
3/18: Julian Brolaski
4/1: A memorial for Sean Bonney
4/16: Holloway poet Farid Matuk
4/22: Lynn Xu
Fall 2019
9/11: English faculty reading(link is external)
9/26: Rae Armantrout with Matthew Bowie(link is external)
10/7: Sawako Nakayasu with Sarah Payne (no video)
10/28: Don Bogen reads with Eliot D'Silva
11/5: Erica Hunt reads with Dana Swensen
Spring 2019
February 6, 2019: Poetry Reading: Cedar Sigo with Noah Warren(link is external)
February 13, 2019: The Holloway Series in Poetry Presents Andrea Brady(link is external)
March 13, 2019: The Holloway Series in Poetry Presents Aditi Machado(link is external)
April 17, 2019: The Holloway Series in Poetry Presents Chris Nealon
Fall 2018
August 29: Annual Faculty Reading, with Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, John Shoptaw, and Sara Nicholson
September 20: Roberto Harrison with Rebecca Nieto(link is external)
September 26: Sara Nicholson(link is external)
October 2: Evie Shockley(link is external) with Jared Robinson
October 18: Tom Pickard with Leo Dunsker
Spring 2018
February 1: Mónica de la Torre with Lo Ferris(link is external)
February 21: Alan Felsenthal with Mary Wilson(link is external)
February 28: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Ismail Muhammad(link is external)
April 24: Brenda Hillman with Jane Gregory
Fall 2017
August 31: Annual Faculty Reading (featuring Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, John Shoptaw, and giovani singleton)
September 14: giovanni singleton
October 11: Renee Gladman
November 8: Farid Matuk
November 17 (*4pm): Black Took Collective
Spring 2017
February 15: Graham Foust(link is external)
March 22: Simone White
April 12: Douglas Kearney
April 19: Morgan Parker
Fall 2016
September 7: Annual Faculty Reading(link is external) (with C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, John Shoptaw, and Mary Szybist)
September 22: Mary Szybist(link is external) (Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics)
September 29: George Stanley(link is external) with Mary Mussman
October 19: Tonya Foster(link is external) with Simona Schneider
Tonya Foster also gave a talk for the Mixed Blood Project: “‘Nothing to See Here’ and other Misdirections”
October 27: Gary Snyder (link is external) with Eliot D’Silva
Related Events
November 1: Trevor Joyce
November 9: Nathaniel Mackey(link is external), “Breath and Precarity,”(link is external)The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics
November 15: Rachel Zucker(link is external), “The intersection of poetry, confession, ethics, and disobedience,” a Bagley Wright Lecture
Spring 2016
February 10: Bernadette Mayer(link is external) with Christian Nagler
February 24: Simone White(link is external) (CANCELED(link is external))
March 9: Graham Foust(link is external) (CANCELED(link is external))
April 6: Anna Moschovakis(link is external)
April 13: Frank B. Wilderson, III (link is external) with Mary Wilson
Fall 2015
September 15: Annual Faculty Reading (With C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, and John Shoptaw)
October 5: Mixed Blood(link is external)/ Holloway Reading: Ronaldo V. Wilson (link is external)&Positive Knowledge(link is external)
4:00pm: Mixed Blood Talk: “Drawing: The Body At Play, The Mind Holding Fat”
6:00pm: Positive Knowledge, Live Music
6:30pm: Ronaldo V. Wilson with Aura Maru
October 22: Srikanth Reddy (link is external)
4:00pm: Bagley Wright Lecture: “The O of Wonder: A Syzygy”
6:00pm: Larry Ochs – Don Robinson(link is external) Duo, Live Music
6:30pm: Srikanth Reddy with Ismail Muhammad
November 11: Rae Armantrout(link is external)
6:00pm: Patrick Wolff(link is external)/ John Wiitala Duo
6:30pm: Rae Armantrout(link is external)Reading with Rachel Beck
Spring 2015
February 18th: Claudia Rankine(link is external) (with Joshua Adam Anderson)
February 25th: Peter Gizzi(link is external) (with Claire Marie Stancek)
March 18th: Fred Moten(link is external) (with Daniel Benjamin)
April 8th: Fanny Howe(link is external) (with David Vandeloo)
Fall 2014
September 4th: Annual Faculty Reading (with C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Ed Roberson, and John Shoptaw)
September 9th: Hillary Gravendyk Memorial Event
September 18th: Ed Roberson
October 23rd: Mixed Blood / Holloway Reading :: C.D. Wright (with Christopher Miller)
November 4th: Clark Coolidge (with Alek Jeziorek)
November 20th: Tennessee Reed (with Ryan Ikeda)