Upcoming Events

  • Jeanne-Marie Jackson with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and David James

    Jeanne-Marie Jackson with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and David James

    Date: April 23, 2026

    Time: 12:00 PM

    Jeanne-Marie Jackson in conversation with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and David James, in collaboration with English Literary History and The Hopkins Review, held online.

  • This Luminous Life: A Creative Conversation on Poetry & Art with Allan Peterson and Stephanie Burt

    This Luminous Life: A Creative Conversation on Poetry & Art with Allan Peterson and Stephanie Burt

    Date: May 17, 2026

    Time: 2:00 PM

    This event will take place on Sunday, May 17th from 2:00 - 3:00 pm CST and is free and open to the public.

  • Chen Chen

    Date: October 26, 2026

    October 31, 2026.

    Project Poëtica Artist in Residence.

  • Emily Wilson and Carl Phillips

    Emily Wilson and Carl Phillips

    Date: March 3, 2027

    Carl Wilson will join Emily Wilson in conversation.

  • Carl Phillips

    Carl Phillips

    Date: March 4, 2027

    Carl Phillips event

Series

  • First Rodeo

    First Rodeo is a seasonal poetry readings series hosted by L. A. Johnson and Hannah Smith.

  • D-Claim

    Hosted by JD Debris, D-Claim is a live jazz and poetry series taking place the third Thursday of every month at , combining a jazz band with a featured poet.

Past Events

  • Swirl & Vortex Book Cover

    Swirl & Vortex Launch Party

    Date: March 23, 2026

    Time: 7:00 PM

    The Sundown at Granada, Swirl & Vortex launch party featuring Mai Der Vang, David St. John, Kevin Prufer, and Liz Johnson.

  • AWP Off Site Readers

    AWP Off-Site Reading

    Date: March 5, 2026

    Time: 6:00 PM

    AWP Off-Site reading, held with Deep Vellum Publishing, at Pratt Street Ale House, 51³Ô¹ÏÍøEnglish's Project Poëtica readers include Conor Bracken, Leila Chatti, Chen Chen, Denise Duhamel, and Mag Gabbert.

  • 51³Ô¹ÏÍøSymposium on Poetic Form

    Date: February 23, 2026

    February 24, 2026.

    Keynote poet, Ada Limón. Keynote scholar, Anahid Nersessian. Keynote presenters include will Patience Agbabi, Stephanie Burt, Camille Dungy, Virginia Jackson, Adrian Matejka, Jenny Molberg, Jahan Ramazani, and Srikanth Reddy.

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  • Merve Emre

    Merve Emre

    Date: November 12, 2025

    Time: 5:00 PM

    Lecture by Merve Emre in the Bridwell Library, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time."

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  • Merve Emre / Tracy K Smith

    Date: November 11, 2025

    Time: 5:00 PM

    Tracy K Smith in creative conversation with Merve Emre in the Bridwell Library, reception afterward.

  • Tracy K Smith

    Tracy K Smith

    Date: November 10, 2025

    Time: 5:00 PM

    Tracy K Smith poetry reading on November 10th at 5 p.m. in the Bridwell Library.

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  • Junot Diaz

    Junot Díaz

    Date: October 18, 2025

    Time: 3:30 PM

    Junot Díaz in conversation with Paola Nagovitch, at .

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  • Spotted Ponies Authors

    Spotted Ponies Book Launch

    Date: October 9, 2025

    Time: 7:00 PM

    Book launch party for Spotted Ponies: The Collected Zines, a collaboration between Chen Chen, Leila Chatti, Tarfia Faizullah, Mag Gabbert, and Carly Joy Miller, at .


  • Poetica Speakers: Luisa Muradyan, Denise Duhamel, and Aaron Smith

    Luisa Muradyan, Denise Duhamel, and Aaron Smith

    Date: September 10, 2025

    Time: 7:30 PM

    At Inner Moonlight / . All three poets are publishing books with 51³Ô¹ÏÍøProject Poëtica / Bridwell Press: Luisa Muradyan’s I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated and a two-book-in-one collaboration, Tilt by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, and Beautiful People, by Aaron Smith and Maureen Seaton. The first book is part of a series for poets who have poets at least one other collection; the second book is part of a series on poetic collaboration.

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  • Joy Harjo

    Joy Harjo

    Date: May 16, 2025

    Time: 7:00 PM

    Joy Harjo, at the in partnership with  (located at 231 Jefferson Blvd., Dallas, TX 75208).

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  • Joshua Bennett and Sharon P Holland

    Joshua Bennett & Sharon P. Holland

    Date: March 25, 2025

     

    5:30PM Reception, 6-7:30PM Event (Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium)

     

    51³Ô¹ÏÍøProject Poëtica co-sponsored the Black Studies and the Environment Symposium with Narrative Now.

     

    “Black Studies and the Environmental Humanities” considers the relationship between the environmental humanities and black studies.

     

    Joshua Bennett and Sharon P. Holland held a conversation, which was moderated by Samantha Pergadia.

  • Rita Felski

    Rita Felski

    Date: February 26, 2025

    Time: 5:00 PM

    Rita Felski gave a lecture titled "On Resonance" at 5 p.m. on February 26th in the Bridwell Library. 

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  • Rita and Terrance

    Terrance Hayes / Rita Felski

    Date: February 25, 2025

    Time: 5:00 PM

    Terrance Hayes participated in a creative conversation with Rita Felski on February 25th in the Moody Graduate School Auditorium.
  • Terrance Hayes

    Terrance Hayes

    Date: February 24, 2025

    Time: 4:00 PM

    Terrance Hayes gave a reading on February 24th in the Bridwell Library; followed by a book signing.

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  • Erika Almenara

    Date: January 29, 2025

    Erika Almenara hosted a Creative Writing Workshop on January 29th at 6:00PM entitled “Spaces of intemperie.” In addition, on January 30th at 4:00PM she presented the book The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru. Both events were held in Caruth Hall (Engineering School – room 147), in partnership with the Department of World Languages and Literatures.

     

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  • Erika Meitner

    Erika Meitner

    Date: November 4, 2024

    Erika Meitner visited campus on November 3-8 as the inaugural 51³Ô¹ÏÍøProject Poëtica Artists in Residence, visiting classes, holding individual meetings with students to discuss their poetry, and giving a poetry reading.

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  • Jenny Molberg

    Jenny Molberg

    Date: September 11, 2024

    Jenny Molberg visited classes on campus and gave a reading on , as part of their .

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