Readings and Events
Recent readers have included Afaa Michael Weaver, Opal Palmer Adisa, Stephanie Strickland, Karen Volkman, Miguel Murphy, Beckian Fitz-Goldberg, Lyn Hejinian, Laird Hunt, Cole Swensen, Brian Evenson, Raymond Federman, Jean Valentine, Stacey Levine, Mary Burger, Nambi Kelley, Edmund White, Eleni Sikelianos, Kwame Dawes, Lance Olsen, Maureen Owen, Cris Mazza, Ross Gay, Rachel Zucker, Andrew Zawacki, Stephanie Strickland, Tyehimba Jess, and Myung Mi Kim, and Karen Volkman.
On a semi-annual basis the Creative Writing Program hosts a Small Press Festival during which publishers, writers, and readers gather to discuss the practical, political, and philosophical questions surrounded small press publishing. Recent festivals have represented such presses and journals as Dalkey Archives, Les Figues, Counterpath Press, Fiction Collective II, New American Writing, La Presse, Tarpaulin Sky, and our own Subito Press.