Department Events

Upcoming Events

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Anaïs Duplan

"Politics of the Visual" Lecture Series (Fall 24)

Anaïs Duplan presents What Lies at the Intersection of Land Ownership and Documentary Poetics on
November 7, 2024 at 5:30pm, MOSAIC Event Space (49 Main St, North Adams)

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Forrest Gander

MCLA's Visiting Writers Series (Fall 24)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander will be on campus working with students and offering a public poetry reading on November 12 at 7 pm in the CSI Atrium. This event is free and open to the public.

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Spires Open Mic

Spires Open Mic on October 18th, 7 - 10pm, CSI Atrium. Share your writing and enjoy snacks with us!

 

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Alexandra Foradas

"Politics of the Visual" Lecture Series (Fall 24)

Alexandra Foradas presents Technologies of Magic: Contemporary Artists and Rituals, Talismans, and Folklore on
October 16, 2024 at 6:30pm, MOSAIC Event Space (49 Main St, North Adams)

 

Past Events

Susan Stinson

Susan Stinson

Visiting Writer

Spring 24, Visiting writer Susan Stinson. March 21, 2024 @ 7:00pm. Location Murdock 218- updates pending. Brought to you by the MCLA English department

Jane Wong

Jane Wong

MCLA's English Department Presents: Jane Wong A Poetry Reading on Leap Day

Jane Wong is the author of the memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023) and two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. February 29 at 7:00pm Murdock 218.

Spires Submissions Open!

Spires Submissions Open!

Spires Submissions Open! Deadline: March 1st - We accept poetry, prose, or visual art works! Email spires@mcla.edu with submissions or questions! Please scan all artworks and send all writing via Word document. Any prose longer than 3 pages will be published online only.

 

Spires Open Mic

Spires Open Mic

Spires Open Mic - February 16th, 7-9 - CSI Atrium. Share your writing and enjoy snacks with us!

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Paradise Lost

Read Out Loud!

Paradise Lost Read Out Loud! CSI Atrium 6:30pm-8:00pm Every Friday until April 5!

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Maggie CLark and Rebeca Buchanan

Watchfulness: Folk Art & The Craft of Teaching

The Mind's Eye presents Watchfulness: Folk Art & The Craft of Teaching Presented by Maggie Clark and Rebecca Buchanan. Wednesday, February 7th, 5:30pm Mucrdock 218

 

Highlights of previous events

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Poetry Reading by Rage Hezekiah

Senior Flex Reading

A literary reading featuring our Senior Writing Contest judge and the two winners!

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MCLA's Visiting Writers Series

An Evening with Jeffrey Yang - Poetry Reading + Q&A

Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light (2022), Hey, Marfa (2018), Vanishing-Line (2011), and An Aquarium (2008), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He is the translator of Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile (with the author), Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies, Su Shi’s East Slope, and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up. Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and New York Review of Books. He lives in Beacon, New York.

Sam Ace

Sam Ace

Visiting Writer Series

Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is a National Poetry Series finalist and the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, as well as a Lambda Literary Award.

Bob Davis

Bob Howard

Hardman Journalist in Residence

Bob Davis is a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal who covers economic issues out of Washington D.C.,and focuses on the trade and economic struggle between the United States and China. He is co-author of a book about the fight, “Superpower Showdown,” which the New York Times lauded for its keen reporting.

Joanna Howard

Joanna Howard

Visiting Writer Series

Joanna Howard is Assistant Professor of Literary Arts specializing in prose writing and poetry hybrids, with a background in narrative theory and contemporary literature. 

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Grace Gilbert

MCLA & Mass MoCA Under 27 Writer-in-Residence

grace (ge) gilbert is an essayist, poet, and artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. they are the author of two chapbooks-- NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK (Antenna Books 2022) and the closeted diaries (Porkbelly Press 2022). grace has received support from Bread Loaf as well as Pittsburgh's City of Asylum. they are currently working on a hybrid poetry/nonfiction book, "holly," about their grandmother who was murdered in 1976. find their work in the Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, ANMLY, and elsewhere, or check out their website at https://gracegegilbert.com

Mary-Kim Arnold

Mary-Kim Arnold

Visiting Writer Series

Mary-Kim Arnold is a writer, artist, and teacher. She is the author of The Fish & The Dove (Noemi Press) and Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press). Other writings have appeared in Hyperallergic, Conjunctions, The Denver Quarterly, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Mary-Kim teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. She serves as Senior Editor for Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts at Tupelo Quarterly. Adopted from Korea and raised in New York, Mary-Kim lives in Rhode Island with her husband and children.