October 23, 2024
Spooky Season is upon us! The leaves here in Evanston have begun their yearly transition, and it’s the best time of year to work on a nineteenth century Gothic campus…. READ MORE
September 30, 2024
from the organizer’s website: ZAMI NOBLA is honored to host a special evening with the renowned Black lesbian poet, scholar, and activist Cheryl Clarke. This intimate event will explore the… READ MORE
September 12, 2024
from the organizer’s website: In the powerful poetic debut Find Me When You’re Ready (Curbstone Books, 2024), Perry Janes interrogates the myths we carry. The Detroit-based writer and filmmaker’s lyric… READ MORE
September 11, 2024
Curbstone Books, an NUP imprint, is known for innovative books focused on promoting equity, justice, and intercultural understanding. This month, we have two phenomenal debut poetry collections publishing under the… READ MORE
June 5, 2024
From the organizer’s website: On July 11, Patricia Smith will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for her lifetime achievements. The ceremony, co-presented with our host the… READ MORE
April 22, 2021
In honor of National Poetry Month, Northwestern University Press would like to share a poem written by our director and published poet, Parneshia Jones! Parneshia’s collection, Vessel: Poems (Milkweed Editions), is… READ MORE
March 3, 2021
Kentucky native poet Ellen Hagan will discuss her poetry, her new book, and what makes poetry/prose so important. Ellen will also do a private reading from her poetry collection and… READ MORE
June 5, 2020
Kara Jackson open and picked apart the heart of America that beats too fast, because if you don’t run quick enough, you don’t know who will shoot you. In Chicago,… READ MORE
June 2, 2020
Patricia Smith For avery r. young Baby girls boom. Baby girls blow and burn, skin balloons, booms. Baby girls burn, boom. The Lord dangles, festive and helpless. Hymnals blacken while… READ MORE
October 21, 2019
Far more than a protest anthology, Martin Espada’s What Saves Us brings together portraits of Trump’s enablers with the myriad voices of the lost, abandoned, and marginalized. These stories of immigrants, minimum… READ MORE