Award-winning poet Major Jackson to read his work at Emory University

Major Jackson, an award-winning poet and host of the podcast “The Slowdown,” will give a public reading during a visit to Emory University on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2023, at 3 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory campus. Jackson’s books will be for sale at the reading, with a signing Read More …

Poet Marilyn Chin to give virtual reading to celebrate Women’s History Month

Award-winning poet Marilyn Chin will share her work in a virtual reading at Emory University on Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m. The online reading, which is open to the public at no charge, also celebrates Women’s History Month. The event is part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series founded by Emory’s Stuart Read More …

D.A. Powell: A Nonconformist Poet

On October 26, award-winning poet D.A. Powell came to Woodruff Library as the first speaker in this season’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series. A Guggenheim Fellow, winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Prize and two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Powell is well known for his first three collections of poetry, Read More …