Thursday, January 15, 7:00 PM 
HD/Bryher Residency Reading:
Cameron Awkward-Rich & Franny Choi 

Cameron Awkward-Rich's most recent book is The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. He is also the author of two collections of poetry: Dispatch, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and Sympathetic Little Monster, finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. 

Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Their books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On; Soft Science; and Floating, Brilliant, Gone. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is Faculty in Literature at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge. 

Thursday, January 29, 7:00 PM 
Eleanor Wilner & Alicia Ostriker   

Eleanor Wilner is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Before Our Eyes; New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017; Tourist in Hell and Gone to Earth: Early & Uncollected Poems 1964-1975; and a book on visionary imagination: Gathering the Winds. She is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and was the 2019 Frost Medal recipient of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement. 

Alicia Ostriker is the author of the now-classic Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. Her most recent collection of poems is The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019. She’s been twice nominated for the National Book Award and has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry. She was New York State Poet Laureate and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. 

This reading is sponsored by John Hudak in memory of his parents John A. Hudak Jr. and Dorothy M. Hudak. 

Thursday, February 12, 7:00 PM  
Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Reading:
Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya & Fernando Flores  

Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya is a fiction and architecture writer living in the Sonoran Desert. He is the author of The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos. His work has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Offing, DIAGRAM, Triangle House Review, and Joyland. 

Fernando A. Flores is the author of the collections Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and Valleyesque and the novel Tears of the Trufflepig, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. His fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Frieze, Porter House Review, and elsewhere.  

Thursday, February 19, 7:00 PM  
Annie Wenstrup & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha   

Annie Wenstrup is a Dena’ina poet and the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories. She is the recipient of a 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry. Her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She was a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow, and an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow in 2022 and 2023. 

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of Something About Living, winner of the 2024 National Book Award and the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry; Kaan & Her Sisters, finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Salt, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honorable mention for the 2018 Arab American Award.  

This reading is sponsored by Peggy Shumaker. 

Thursday, February 26, 7:00 PM  
Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading:
Andrew Grace & Susan Nguyen 

Andrew Grace is the author of A Belonging Field, Shadeland, and SANCTA. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, The Adroit Journal, Boston Review and New Criterion. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he is a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review and teaches at Kenyon College. His fourth collection, A Brief History of the Midwest, is recently out from Black Lawrence Press.   

Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection Dear Diaspora won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, and others.

Thursday, March 26, 7:00 PM  
Zeina Hashem Beck 

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and the author of, most recently, O, named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. Her collection of 40 palindromic sonnets, titled This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty, is forthcoming in March 2027. Her work has appeared in LARB, Poem-a-Day, and Lithub, among others. She currently lives in California.

This reading is sponsored by the University of Arizona’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.   

Thursday, April 2, 7:00PM  
Sacred Spaces of Indigenous Poetry: In-Na-Po 2026 Retreat Faculty & Fellows Reading (First Night) 

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. They will host their fifth annual week-long retreat for emerging Native poets at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, AZ, and at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Join us for a two-day reading featuring the faculty and fellows of In-Na-Po’s 2026 Retreat. 

This reading is presented in partnership with Amerind Museum. 

Friday, April 3, 7:00PM  
Sacred Spaces of Indigenous Poetry: In-Na-Po 2026 Retreat Faculty & Fellows Reading (Second Night)  

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. They will host their fifth annual week-long retreat for emerging Native poets at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, AZ, and at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Join us for a two-day reading featuring the faculty and fellows of In-Na-Po’s 2026 Retreat. 

This reading is presented in partnership with Amerind Museum. 

Thursday, April 9, 7:00PM 
Volha Hapeyeva

Volha Hapeyeva writes in Belarusian and German and has received numerous prizes and awards for her work: English PEN Translates Award for the poetry book In My Garden of Mutants  (2021, Arc Publication), Wortmeldungen Literature Preis-2022 (Germany), among others. Her poems have been translated into more than 15 languages. Since 2020 she has lived in exile in Austria and Germany.

Thursday, April 16, 7:00PM 
Julia Alvarez 

Julia Alvarez is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her novel In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts. She was the subject of an American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined," on PBS. She’ll publish the poetry collection Visitations in spring 2026.   

Thursday, April 30, 7:00PM 
Balam Rodrigo 

Balam Rodrigo is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Central American Book of the Dead, winner of the Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascalientes; Marabunta; and El tañedor de cadavers. A biologist, writer, and former professional soccer player, he lives in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México. Rodrigo is a Fellow with the Borchard Center on Literary Arts. 

This reading is presented with support from the Borchard Center on Literary Arts. 

Saturday, May 2, 12:00 PM 
Classes & Workshops Reading 

Presenting students and instructors who participated in the Classes & Workshops program. 

Saturday, May 9, 12:00PM 
Creative Writing MFA Graduate Reading 

Students graduating from the MFA in Creative Writing program read from their work.