Literary Arts at Brown

03/16/2026

Susan Howe takes part in Writers on Writing on Thursday, 19 March at 4 pm (note the early start time) in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence. Access will close no later than 4:10 pm.

02/26/2026

Join us today at 5:30 pm in the McCormack Family Theater for a reading by Chigozie Obioma -- part of the Writers on Writing Series. Location -- 70 Brown Street (entry west of Brown on Fones Alley). Doors close at 5:40 pm (no late admissions).

10/27/2023

Light While There is Light: for Keith Waldrop to take place on 31 October and 1 November. There will be a series of events featuring reminiscences and readings from Keith’s work. These events, most of which will take place in person on the Brown campus, will also be available via Zoom. To learn more, visit https://literaryarts.brown.edu/light-while-there-light...

The Literary Arts Department at Brown offers the M.F.A. degree in fiction, poetry, and digital langu

10/23/2023

Over the course of 31 October and 1 November, an extended community of admirers and friends will celebrate Keith Waldrop’s contributions to world literature. There will be a series of events featuring reminiscences and readings from Keith’s work. These events, most of which will take place in person on the Brown campus, will also be available via Zoom. To learn more, visit https://literaryarts.brown.edu/light-while-there-light-keith-waldrop

The Literary Arts Department at Brown offers the M.F.A. degree in fiction, poetry, and digital langu

02/23/2023

Iman Mersal will offer a reading from recent poetry -- at 5:30 pm, on Wednesday, 1 March -- McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street. Providence.

Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet, essayist, translator and literary scholar. Currently Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada, she is the author of five books of Arabic poetry, selections from which have been translated into numerous languages. In English translation, her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Parnassus, Paris Review, The Nation, and American Poetry Review, among others. These Are Not Oranges, My Love, a selection of Mersal’s work translated into English by Khaled Mattawa, was published in 2008 (Sheep Meadow Press), and The Threshold, translated into English by Robyn Creswell, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022.

This event is made possible by Brown University's Literary Arts dept. and by the Center for Middle East Studies.

The Literary Arts Department at Brown offers the M.F.A. degree in fiction, poetry, and digital langu

02/07/2023

Lynn Xu will present from recent and current literary work at 1 pm on Sunday, 12 February in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence. Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of Debts & Lessons and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, and the co-translator of P*e Poems by Lao Yang. She has performed multidisciplinary works at 300 South Kelly Street, the Guggenheim Museum, the Renaissance Society, and Rising Tide Projects. She teaches at Columbia University and coedits Canarium Books.

11/26/2022

Two events have just been added to the Literary Arts at Brown series: Jacinda Townsend will read on Friday, 2 December at 5:30 pm; and Patricia Park will read on Monday, 5 December at 5:30 pm – both readings will take place in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence. Jacinda Townsend is the author of Mother Country, winner of the 2022 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Saint Monkey, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Patricia Park is the author of Re Jane, a modern-day retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre, named The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, NPR “Fresh Air” pick, American Library Association Best Books, and others. Her debut YA novel, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim, is forthcoming in February 2023.

10/19/2022

The 2022 C.D. Wright Lecture will be presented by Lynn Keller on Tuesday, 25 October at 5:30 pm in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence. This year's lecture is entitled "C.D. Wright's Chlorophyll World. Lynn Keller is Professor Emerita of English and former Director of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent book, written with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene. She is also the author of Re-Making it New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition; Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women; Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics and coeditor, with Cristanne Miller, of Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory. https://events.brown.edu/literary-arts/event/237353-lynn-keller-cd-wright-lecture

The Literary Arts Department at Brown offers the M.F.A. degree in fiction, poetry, and digital langu

09/22/2022

Moonspool: Film and Poetry Meet, Friday, 23 September at 6 pm, McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence. Screenings of short experimental films by Courtney Stephens, Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, Margaret Tait and Eleni Sikelianos & Courtney Stephens. This event is free and open to the public.

The Literary Arts Department at Brown offers the M.F.A. degree in fiction, poetry, and digital langu

09/20/2022

Writers on Writing begins on Thursday, 22 September at 5:30 pm, with a presentation by Divya Victor, author of Curb and winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Award. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence.

The Literary Arts Department at Brown offers the M.F.A. degree in fiction, poetry, and digital langu