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Joseph Rios Awarded Fellowship Prize from Academy of American Poets
Joseph Rios Awarded Fellowship Prize from Academy of American Poets
Stegner Fellow and Fresno Poet Laureate Joseph Rios has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. These $50,000 awards are given to honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to support them in creating new work, as well as to enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that enrich the lives…
2024-2026 Stegner Fellows
2024-2026 Stegner Fellows
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to welcome the incoming 2024-2026 Stegner Fellow cohort in poetry and fiction.
New Book Release from Nicholas Jenkins
New Book Release from Nicholas Jenkins
Nicholas Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program, celebrates the release of his new book The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England. A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.
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Join Jones Lecturer Keith Ekiss at POET'S HOUSE this Winter, a writing studio for all poets--beginning…
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Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Stanford Humanities Center, we're pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows…
