Lesley University’s 2021 Evelyn M. Finnegan Children’s Literature Lecture Series speaker is Nigerian-American writer and dancer Candice Iloh. A 2017 graduate of Lesley’s MFA Program in Creative Writing for Young People, Candice is a fitting choice for this well-regarded lecture series. Their first novel, "Every Body Looking," was a 2021 Printz Award Honoree and a […]
Join Lisa Gruenberg (Nonfiction, June 2007) for a virtual event at the Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, NY as she talks about her recently published memoir, My City of Dreams.
Boston Gordon (Poetry, January 2015) is a poet and visual designer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They run the You Can't Kill A Poet reading series - which highlights queer and trans identified writers in Philadelphia. Boston earned their MFA in Poetry through Lesley University. They received a Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant in 2017. […]
Join us for a special story time with Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) and Jason Chin to celebrate the release of their new picture book, Watercress! Andrea Wang tells a moving autobiographical story of a child of immigrants discovering and connecting with her heritage, illustrated by award winning author and artist Jason Chin, working in an […]
Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry, June 2012) earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Descent is her first full-length book, and individual poems have been published in journals such as The Adirondack Review, CAIRN, The Main Street Rag, and Melusine. Jennifer was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize and works in the English Department at […]
The MSU Filmetry Festival is an annual collaborative art-making endeavor that pairs filmmakers with poets to create exciting new pieces of work. Now entering its 3rd year, co-founders Cindy Hunter Morgan and Pete Johnston are thrilled to once again invite filmmakers to synthesize and adapt poetic work into film. Their hope is that through this […]
In this workshop, led by poet and professor Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), some of the great poetic influences (think John Keats and Wallace Stevens, or Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich) will be explored and two prompts will be provided to inspire you to invite influence into your work. Steven Cramer’s sixth poetry collection, Listen, was […]
Kevin Prufer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which is How He Loved Them (Four Way Books), winner of the Julie Suk Award and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Prufer is also Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series, and Professor in […]
Steven Cramer’s (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) sixth poetry collection, Listen, was published in 2020 by MadHat Press. He is the author of five previous collections, most recently Clangings (2012) and Goodbye to the Orchard (2004), which won the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and was named an Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for […]
In April 2021, Salem, MA will be the epicenter of contemporary American poetry, offering rare opportunities to hear the nation’s best poets read and discuss their work in intimate and engaging forums. Join Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016), Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), Christine Jones (Poetry, January 2014), and Kyle Potvin as they read from […]
CCW Poetry Open Mic with featured poet Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry, June 2012), author of Descent (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Join on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30pm Eastern to share your verse! We have 20 slots available, so sign-up here.
In this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a […]
