The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with Danez Smith.

"Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez's poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with D.A. Powell.

D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) and Chronic (Graywolf, 2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the 2013 Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Powell's awards include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kingsley Tufts Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the California Book Award.1

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Join us with Workshop Director Sam Chang and Workshop professor Margot Livesey for a reading and discussion of Chang’s Hunger: A Novella and Stories, which has just been reissued by W.W. Norton for the 25th anniversary of its publication. Chang wrote Hunger when she was a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Livesey was her thesis advisor. A powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger illuminates the lives of first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Writers' Workshop Professor of Poetry, James Galvin.

James Galvin has published eight books of poems, most recently Everything We Always Knew Was True (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His new and collected poems, Resurrection Update (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Poet's Prize. His poetry collection, God's Mistress, was a National Poetry Series winner.

James...