Sojka Poet-in-ResidenceDanez SmithPoetry and Q&A: Tuesday October 8 , 7pm, Bucknell HallCraft Talk & Workshop: Thursday, October 10, 12pm, Hildreth-Mirza Great RoomDanez 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 have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez's poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Best American Poetry and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective. Former co-host of the Webby nominated podcast VS (Versus), they are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Princeton, United States Artists, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez has been featured as part of Forbes' annual 30 Under 30 list and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. They live in Minneapolis near their people.

Sojka Poet-in-ResidenceDanez SmithPoetry and Q&A: Tuesday October 8 , 7pm, Bucknell HallCraft Talk & Workshop: Thursday, October 10, 12pm, Hildreth-Mirza Great RoomDanez 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 have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez's poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Best American Poetry and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective. Former co-host of the Webby nominated podcast VS (Versus), they are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Princeton, United States Artists, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez has been featured as part of Forbes' annual 30 Under 30 list and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. They live in Minneapolis near their people.

Philosophy Department's Annual Sellars Lecture: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Topic TBA

Fiction & Poetry ReadingVivian Hu & Jessica Nirvana RamThursday, November 14, 7pm, Bucknell HallA 2024 NEA Fellow, Vivian Hu has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and A Public Space. Her stories have appeared in A Public Space, The Drift, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is the Fall 2024 Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell.Jessica Nirvana Ram is the author of the debut poetry collection Earthly Gods (Variant Literature, 2024) and the chapbook in the aftermath (Prismatica Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review, amongst others.

A celebration of World Philosophy Day with food, games, and fun!

Writers in Conversation: The Ongoing AncientSrikanth Reddy & Michael Bazzett, moderated by Dan Beachy-QuickTuesday, December 3, 7pm on ZOOMhttps://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc (https://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc)Poets Srikanth Reddy and Michael Bazzett will join West Branch contributing editor Dan Beachy-Quick will discuss the persistence of the ancient in contemporary poetry. Moderator Dan Beachy-Quick is Professor of English at Colorado State University and the author of many publications in multiple genres, including six collections of poetry. Michael Bazzett is the author of four collections of poetry and the translator of the Mayan origin epic The Popol Vuh, which was acclaimed by The New York Times. Srikanth Reddy's latest book of poetry is Underworld Lit, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry. Reddy is the poetry editor of Paris Review and a professor at the University of Chicago.