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Blakely Program: An Evening of Poetry with Anne Boyer & Magdalena Zurawski
Please join us for an exciting night of poetry with the 2026-2027 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Anne Boyer with Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Magdalena Zurawski!  Reservations Visit the Blakely Archive for all of the events in this year's Blakely Program featuring Anne Boyer!  BLAKELY.UGA.EDU

Blakely Program: "They who are there": On Animals, Prayer, and the Lyric Horizon, a Lecture with Anne Boyer
As part of the 2026-2027 Blakely Program, Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Anne Boyer will present her lecture, "They who are there": On Animals, Prayer, and the Lyric Horizon.  GHOST will be on-site with books available for purchase.  Visit the Blakely Archive for all of the events in this year's Blakely Program featuring Anne Boyer!  BLAKELY.UGA.EDU

An Evening of Poetry with Patricia Smith in Conversation with Chigozie Obioma | Lanier Reading Series
What happens when a poet enters into conversation with her own earlier selves? Please join us for an extraordinary evening with acclaimed poet Patricia Smith, the 2025 National Book Award winner for The Intentions of Thunder, a 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist, and recipient of the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. In The Intentions of Thunder, Smith boldly reimagines the “new and selected” collection, entering into dialogue with her…

Creative Writing Program New Student Reading 2026
Classes may start on August 17th, but it feels like the academic year doesn't really begin for the Creative Writing Program until our annual New Student Reading.  This year, we will gather at the Founders Memorial House & Garden at 5:30 and plan to start the reading at 6:00. You'll hear original work from our four new students and enjoy a yummy spread from White Tiger. Please join us! Born in Singapore to a Hainanese family of…

Exit Reading with Creative Writing Program Graduating PhD Students Sayantika Mandal and Christina Wood
Please save the date for this year's Exit Reading!   Sayantika Mandal Sayantika Mandal is a writer, editor, and PhD candidate in English at the University of Georgia, where she serves as the inaugural Arts Lab Graduate Fellow. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, where she was awarded the Jan Zivic Fellowship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in december, Glassworks, West Trade Review,…

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
The UGA Creative Writing Program is thrilled to welcome the 2026 Graduate Reading Series vising poet, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi. In addition to a featured reading and Q+A in Athens, Fargo will sit for an interview to be broadcast by WUGA.   Please mark your calendars for the evening of Thursday, March 26, and join UGA CWP for Fargo’s reading and Q+A at 7pm in the Punaro Room on the top floor of Baldwin Hall, 355 S. Jackson Street, Athens, GA. We…

Booker Prize Finalist Katie Kitamura in Conversation with Chigozie Obioma
As the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English, Professor Obioma brings writers of various genres to campus to speak and share their work with the university and the greater Athens community. The series is aimed to showcase writers with international reach and recognition who can inspire conversations around topics pertinent to their work. Learn more about the Lanier Reading Series here.  Previously, Professor Obioma…

Book Launch & Garden Party for Andrew Zawacki: THESE LATE ECLIPSES
Please join the English Department and the Creative Writing Program as we celebrate Andrew Zawacki's latest collection, These Late Eclipses. Composed during lockdown from March to September 2020, These Late Eclipses is a bracing yet lyrical record of the dystopia that descended with COVID-19.  We welcome you for a reception inside the main house at the Founder's Memorial Garden starting at 6pm, followed by a reading in the gardens at 7pm…

Willson Center Distinguished Artist Lecture Nora Wendl: "Almost Nothing"
Co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Creative Writing Program, the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and the Mod Squad In this talk, Wendl reveals the twenty-year process she undertook to write her “architectural history as memoir,” Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (University of Illinois Press, 2025). Almost Nothing takes up the history of Dr. Edith Farnsworth, eminent physician…

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop: William Wylie
“To Throw a Shadow”  This workshop will focus on the physical and temporal aspects of landscapes. Wylie is motivated by an interest in particular places, and his projects dig beneath the surface to investigate our consumption of space and our movement through it. He will discuss several individuals who have integrated perambulating into their work, as well as his own ideas on why photography and walking go together so well.  William…
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