Reading Series

The Creative Writing Program, the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences, along with the Office of Student Affairs and the University of Miami Bookstore, enjoy an international reading series, often working in partnership with Caribbean Studies; Jewish Studies; Women and Gender Studies; Student Organizations and/or Books & Books, a local independent bookstore. This year, we establish two new reading series – Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami, showcasing the new publications of our prolific faculty, and USpeak: Open Verse and Story Performance, a community centered reading series that features local and university writers as well as open mic readings to encourage students, faculty and staff to speak their truth in stories, poetry and music. The mission of our reading series is to encourage the reading, writing and performance of poetry and story-based narrative on campus; to foster community, intellectual and artistic engagement; and to create opportunities for our student writers to connect with other writers.

Professor M. Evelina Galang hosts a Q&A with author Ms. Toni Morrison during
Fall Convocation in August of 2005.

Recent national and international guest writers have included:

• Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
• Edwin Torres
• Edwidge Danticat
• Ninotchka Rosca
• Juan Delgado
• Abraham Yehoshua
• Grace Paley
• Marilyn Hacker
• Terese Svoboda
• Jay Wright
• Roland Merullo
• Jason Nelson
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Michael Hettich
• Fleda Brown
• Diane Goodman