Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University

Lannan Readings and Talks 2010-2011 Season

Fanny Howe holds the Lannan Chair in Poetry at Georgetown University for 2010-2012. Irish-American poet, novelist and essayist, she is among the...

Slovenia’s greatest living poet and one of the foremost figures of the European avant-garde, Salamun is the author of thirty-seven books of poetry...

One of the world’s foremost writers, Canadian poet, novelist and memoirist Michael Ondaatje writes at the intersection of cultures, often...

The late Thom Gunn has praised Gewanter for “offering a sense of obstacles, and of obstacles not overcome but ridden and thus dealt with…” and...

Praised as one of “contemporary poetry’s polymaths” by Marjorie Perloff, Stephanie Strickland’s poetry investigates “expansive reading of social...

Critic Fiammetta Rocco describes Caine Prize winner Olufemi Terry’s work as "ambitious, brave and hugely imaginative.” Born in Sierra Leone of...

Raised in Jamaica, Dawes’ work is “profoundly influenced by the rhythms and textures of that lush place” (Barnes & Noble). He has published...

“Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the...

Tom Healy's first book, What the Right Hand Knows, was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award...

Ilya Kaminsky is from Odessa, Ukraine. His first book, Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press), won the American Academy of Arts and Letters'...

Nikola Madzirov, poet, essayist and translator, was born in 1973 to a family of Balkan Wars refugees in Macedonia. His book Relocated Stone...

The Irish Times declares Valzhyna Mort "a risen star of the international poetry world." The Belarusian poet is famed throughout Europe—and...

Lannan Fellows Program

The Lannan Fellows Program, for Georgetown University undergraduates and graduates, introduces students to the exciting world of contemporary creative literature, through a year-long series of readings held on campus and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in downtown Washington, DC. Students have an opportunity to meet and speak with visiting writers, to engage them in conversation at informal seminars and receptions, and to attend readings from their literary work. The Lannan Center is no longer accepting applications for the Lannan Fellows Program. Please e-mail Carolyn Forché for more information.

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