Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Press present an evening of readings by the poets whose collections are the most recent in the press’s Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The series is edited by Susan Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus. Stewart…

In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history — especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls — to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence. In lyric poems and wide-ranging sequences, Mao interrogates gendered expressions such as…

Patricia Smith is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including Unshuttered (2023), a collection of dramatic monologues accompanied by 19th-century photos of African Americans; Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018…

Korey Garibaldi discusses his recently published book, Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America, with Kinohi Nishikawa at Princeton Public Library, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm.…

Author A.J. Verdelle will read from her book Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

Please Join a Lunchtime Conversation

On Books, Bibliography, Bibliophilia & Associational Literary History

with Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

and Denise Gigante, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Stanford University

Prof. Gigante will discuss her new…

Please join Labyrinth for a conversation between Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Princeton, Gene Jarrett, and his colleague in the English Department, Simon Gikandi, about Dunbar who, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist.

Ian Davis, Department of English, Princeton University

This is an announcement for the third meeting of the 20th Century Workshop.

Sponsored by: The Department of English and the Bain-Swiggett Fund

Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.

In the second half of this series, conversations turn from Professor Huerta’s own book Magical Habits to her guests’…

"On Hugh Kenner"  participants are Walter Benn Michaels, Oren Izenberg, Michael Clune, Megan Quigley, and Todd Cronan.  Hosted by Joshua Kotin

University ID is required to attend. Masks must be worn. 

register here: https://forms.gle/uisqnfpTPFjMHCJU8

Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.

In the second half of this series, conversations turn from Professor Huerta’s own book Magical Habits to her guests’ writing and their…

Please join us.  Dozens of readers, one great poem.  To register for this ZOOM event, please contact Susan Wolfson ([email protected]) by January 17.

A Book Talk and Discussion of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (NYU 2020) with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. April 22, 2021 at 4:30pm via zoom. 

Register here: https://forms.gle/WJ3pgqi9reurijgu5

Sponsored by: Intersections Working Group, The Department of English,…

Join the Department of English in welcoming our Bain Swiggett Distinguished Visitor in Poetry & Poetics, Virginia Jackson, on March 25th at 4:30pm. 

Professor Jackson will discuss a pre-circulated section of Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric in the Nineteenth Century. 

Virginia Jackson is UCI Endowed Chair of Rhetoric…

The Department of English and the Council of the Humanities invite you to a rehearsed reading of Colm Tóibín’s Pale Sister by Lisa Dwan. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness this amazing performance.

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Intersections Working Group presents a discussion of Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU, 2020) with author Lindsay V. Reckson, Associate Professor of English at Haverford College.

Intersections Working Group presents a discussion of Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard, 2020) with author Joshua Bennett, Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

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