Nan Cohen will be at Dey House on October 19 to talk and answer questions about teaching opportunities for artists at private high schools.

Cohen is the author of two collections of poetry, Rope Bridge (2005) and Unfinished City (2017). Of Unfinished City Major Jackson writes: “Rarely does one encounter a book whose moral symmetry finds such eloquence and form in lines spare enough to encompass our deepest questions, yet taut enough to sustain us through grief, through the terrors of doubt...

Vinnie Wilhelm and David Kajganich will give a talk and answer questions about adapting works from novel to film.

Wilhelm is the author of the short story collection In the Absence of Predators, which “gets to the beating heart of what makes this country so insane” (The New York Post). His short fiction has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. He works as writer and producer in television, including credits for Castle Rock, The Terror, and Manhattan.

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Lisa Wells and Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read from their recent poetry collections.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Lisa Wells will read from The Fix, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. “Line by line, Wells delivers a brilliant, taut, terrifying debut that renders the parts of the inner and outer world for which there is no real cure.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read from Meadow Slasher, the fourth book in his No Volta pentalogy...

Former U.S. Poet-Laureate and Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Hass is this year’s winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. He was selected for his 2017 book, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry. With a $30,000 cash prize, the Truman Capote Award is the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism.

Hass is one of contemporary American poetry’s most celebrated and widely-read voices and has...