Center for Poetry Announces Upcoming Events

August 15, 2025

Save the dates for these upcoming events!

More details to come; watch our Events page for updates.

 

• Friday, August 22
  • Summer Series II, featuring Suban Nur Cooley, Korey Deans, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Adam Mitts
  • 7:00 p.m., Hooked, 3142 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing

• Thursday, September 11
  • Maxwell Levine, Math for Poets Workshop
  • 11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m., LookOut Gallery, Snyder-Phillips Hall

• Sunday, September 14
  • Leila Chatti, Copper Chimney Lounge Poetry Series, presented with Lansing Poetry Club
  • 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., University United Methodist Church, 1120 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing

• Wednesday, October 8
  • Esther Belin, Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies at MSU
  • Reading, 7 p.m., RCAH Theater with reception/book signing to follow in the LookOut Gallery

• Friday, October 17
  • Tracie Morris: Phanopticon: Reimagining the Ubiquity of "Image" in the Poetic Idea.
  • HYPHENS Lecture: Living/Breathing/Writing Annual Series Presented with the Creative Writing Program, 3:00-4:15 p.m., Venue TBA

• Friday, November 14
  • Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan Poet Laureate
  • Evening reading, Time and venue TBA

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