Spring 2024 Poets & Writers Series
Public readings and conversations about fiction and poetry
The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing, with the assistance of the Department of English and the Richard Moyer Fund. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.
Please check back in fall 2024 for the new series of events.
Poets and Writers Archive
DuPlessis Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
The DuPlessis Lecture is named after Professor Emeritus Rachel Blau DuPlessis. DuPlessis is a widely published poet and critic and one of her significant contributions to the field of poetry and poetics is her interweaving of these two practices. Her poetry often speaks to the concerns of her critical work and her critical works often stretch the conventions of the scholarly essay. This lecture series honors DuPlessis’ expansions of literary form, and features poets who write in a number of different registers.
Past lecturers have included:
- Caroline Bergvall
- Jen Bervin
- Renee Gladman
- John Keene
- Kevin Killian
- Evie Shockley
- Divya Victor