Writers on the Bay Reading Series

Happy birthday to the monster at the end of this post, Grover!

Don’t miss Dorianne Laux reading TONITE for the Writers on the Bay Reading Series!

This is the week we've all been waiting for! Join us for a virtual visit by Dorianne Laux on Thursday, November 4th at 8 PM EST.

Register for your free access link here:

https://fiu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zANOQATsQLysQ0D3PoPcVQ

Learn more about Dorianne Laux here:

https://plumepoetry.com/dorianne-laux-interview-by-helene-cardona/

Dorianne Laux, interview by Hélène Cardona - Plume photo by John Campbell Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected (W.W. Norton, 2019) has been hailed by Kwame Dawes as “a tour de force, a work of striking beauty and humanity—a work for its own time.” The Washington Post writes that “Laux shows us ho...

Dorianne Laux will be joining us virtually for a reading and live Q&A in just 10 days! Have you registered for this free event yet?

https://fiu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zANOQATsQLysQ0D3PoPcVQ

It's not too soon to register for our next Visiting Writer event of the Writers on the Bay Reading Series! Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux will read and answer questions in a live, virtual format on Thursday, November 4th at 8 PM EST.

Register for this free event at https://go.fiu.edu/91035956453

It's just 10 days till our first visiting writer event of the 2021-2022 academic year! The MFA program at FIU and the Writers on the Bay Reading Series are pleased to welcome Oliver de la Paz to the virtual stage on Thursday, September 30th at 8 PM EST for a reading and discussion of his work. You can ask questions too during our live broadcast!

To register now for this free and sure-to-be-fantastic event, click the link below:
https://go.fiu.edu/94883544353

Our 2020 Writers on the Bay visiting writer and 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize judge Major Jackson is the featured poet today at the Academy of American Poets. You can read his poem, “Let Me Begin Again”—or hear him read it—here:

poets.org | Academy of American Poets Home - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and...

“Bobolink,” today’s poem-a-day at the Academy of American Poets was written by Didi Jackson, one of our 2020 Visiting Writers and our 2021 Student Literary Award judge in poetry.

poets.org | Academy of American Poets Home - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and...

Today's poem-a-day at the Academy of American Poets was written by Dorianne Laux, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and our November 4, 2021 guest for the Writers on the Bay Reading Series. Save the date!

I Never Wanted to Die by Dorianne Laux - Poems | poets.org I Never Wanted to Die - It’s the best part of the day, morning light sliding

And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who attended our virtual literary events this academic year.

Save the date: Our next Writers on the Bay event will be LIVE AND IN PERSON at Books and Books in Coral Gables. Join us for the annual FIU MFA Alumni Reading on Sunday, September 12th at 4 PM. A catered reception will follow.

Don't miss the final event of our academic year!

The annual Student Literary Awards are tomorrow night, Thursday, April 8th, beginning at 8 PM EST. Winners and runners-up in undergraduate and graduate poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as the winner and runner-up of the Academy of American Poets Prize will be celebrated, winners will read, and judges' comments on winning entries will be revealed live.

If you haven't registered yet, you can do so here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2021 FIU Student Literary Awards. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2021 FIU Student Literary Awards. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up in our annual student literary contests! We are so proud of all our students who received awards, all our students who entered, and all our students, period. And we are so grateful to our judges.

Please join us for a virtual reading and celebration on Thursday, April 8th at 8 PM EST.

Register here: https://go.fiu.edu/96935688416