Reading with D. A. Powell, the Mohr Visiting Poet

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event with the Mohr Visiting Poet: A Reading with D. A. Powell.

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required; registration form to follow.

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D. A Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include two Northern California Book Awards, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the John Updike Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Critic Stephanie Burt, writing in the New York Times, said of D. A. Powell "No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible."

A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, Powell has taught at Stanford, Columbia, University of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco.

Powell's most recent book is Repast: Tea, Lunch & Cocktails, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt. A chapbook, Atlast T, was published by Rescue Press in Spring of 2020 and Low Hanging Fruit, another chapbook, was printed by Foundlings Press in 2022. Forthcoming is Tricks, from Cutbank in 2026.

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Powell is this year's Mohr Visiting Poet. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished poets to host events and teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These events and seminars are made possible with the generous support of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.