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2 Students + 2 Alumni: A Creative Writing Program Reading
The Creative Writing Program is thrilled to present a reading by two current Ph.D. students and two alumni of the program.  Current students Nneoma Ike-Njoku and Sayantika Mandal joined the Ph.D. program in fall 2020 and alumni Claire Cronin and Jake Syersak graduated in 2019.  This event will take place over Zoom on March 25th at 7 p.m.  Click here to access the event. More about the readers: Nneoma Ike-Njoku is a doctoral…

Reading and Conversation: Joy Harjo and LeAnne Howe
Poets Joy Harjo and Eidson Chair in American Literature LeAnne Howe will have a discussion and read from their work in this event presented by the Institute of Native American Studies and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the department of English and the Creative Writing Program. The event is part of UGA's Signature Lectures series, as well as the Willson Center's 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public event series…

Professor LeAnne Howe takes part in Famine Pots webinar
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe will participate in a talk about her coedited book Famine Pots: The Choctaw–Irish Gift Exchange, 1847–Present.  The event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 1 p.m. This event is being hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland in Austin and the American Conference for Irish Studies. The talk will be moderated by Naomi O’Leary from The Irish Times and will will explore the legacy…

Professor LeAnne Howe takes part in The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation digital event
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe will take part in Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place, a digital event sponsored by The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.  This event will take place online on Friday, Dec. 4th at 7 p.m.  More information here. For the program's website: The evening's program will include short films by emerging and celebrated Indigenous poets, in which they will read their own…

Professor LeAnne Howe takes part in a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry event
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe will take part in an event celebrating the Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry she coedited.  The event will take place over Zoom and is being hosted by the Michigan State University Department of English Creative Writing Program on Thursday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m. Click here to register and for more information.

Dr. Andrew Zawacki takes part in 3Thurs Gallery Talk
Dr. Andrew Zawacki will discuss his poems and photographs with Lyndon House Curator Beth Sales at an in-person event on Thursday, Nov. 19th.  Other participating artists include Derek Faust, who will discuss his sculptures in BOUNDLESS created from road debris, and Kendall Rogers, who has pandemic inspired paintings populated with women and words. You will need to reserve a free ticket for the talk. 20 tickets…

Dr. Andrew Zawacki takes part in virtual Studio One Reading
Creative Writing Program professor Dr. Andrew Zawacki will take part in the Studio One Reading Series on Friday, Nov. 6th at 8:30 p.m. EST.  Dr. Zawacki will read with writers Brenda Hillman and Cynthia Parker-Ohene. Click here to RSVP for the reading.

Professor Aruni Kashyap featured in Second Saturdays Reading Series
Professor Aruni Kashyap, with writer Inez Tan, will take part in Singapore Unbound's Second Saturdays Reading Series on Saturday, Nov. 14th, 7:30 p.m. on Zoom.  RSVP Jee at  jkoh@singaporeunbound.org for Zoom link. His Father's Disease: Stories by Aruni Kashyap At a conference in Delhi, Assamese writer Sanjib reimagines the enduring fable of Tejimola, the girl who sprouted leaves. But the English language literati…

Professor LeAnne Howe discusses new book FAMINE POTS: THE CHOCTAW-IRISH GIFT EXCHANGE, 1847-Present
University of Georgia Eidson Chair in American Literature LeAnne Howe and Padraig Kirwan, the authors of “Famine Pots,” will be discussing their book about Choctaw, the Irish, and their history of humanitarian aid as part of Milton Reads, the town-wide reading program. The bond and history between these two nations is captured in their book Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present, and on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m., Howe…

Professor LeAnne Howe to take part in virtual Institute for Inquiry and Poetics
The University of Arizona Poetry Center, part of the College of Humanities, is launching a new, virtual Institute for Inquiry and Poetics. The inaugural convening, offered in partnership with the Hurand Connection Fund, will feature University of Georgia Eidson Chair in American Literature LeAnne Howe, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, and  poet Jennifer Foerster, editors of W.W. Norton’s new literary anthology, When the Light of the…
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