Occasions for Gathering Presents: Generative Writing Workshop with Randall Horton

October 27, 2021 at 11:20 am-12:20 pm – In conversation with Angela Davis: Seize the Time, an exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum through June 2022, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, and the Rutgers-Camden Writers House present Occasions for Gathering: a Generative Writing Workshop with Randall Horton. In this free, generative, online poetry […]

Occasions for Gathering Presents: Randall Horton and Krista Franklin

October 27, 2021 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – In conversation with Angela Davis: Seize the Time, an exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum through June 2022, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, and the Rutgers-Camden Writers House present Occasions for Gathering: Randall Horton and Krista Franklin. Join us as these category-transcending artists present new […]

Old English Translation Beyond the Horizon: Breaking the Chains of Nostalgia

November 3, 2021 at 11:20 am-12:20 pm – Translation Beyond Nostalgia with Dr. Aaron Hostetter This event will take place in person in the Writers House, 305 Cooper Street. Please adhere to all university COVID guidelines when planning to attend. The history of the Western world is intimately bound up in translation. Translation allowed the ancients to speak to later centuries. It allowed […]

Cooper Street Workshop: Poetry as Peculiar Joy

November 10, 2021 at 6:00 pm-9:00 pm – Instructor: Rosebud Ben-Oni  In these trying times of social distancing and anxiety, how do we connect now? How can we reframe our expectations for the future, our hopes and happiness, through a poetry of a new, sometimes painful but necessary candor? In this workshop, we will examine the complexities of joy and feeling joy through […]

Writers in Camden: Eduardo Corral Craft Talk

November 17, 2021 at 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – Visiting poet Eduardo Corral (Guillotine) will present a brief talk on attentiveness to craft in the writing process, followed by a Q&A. Please contact Leah Falk for the registration link. 

Writers in Camden: Eduardo Corral and Safiya Sinclair

November 17, 2021 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Poets Eduardo Corral (Guillotine) and Safiya Sinclair (Cannibal) read from their work.  Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine, published by Graywolf Press, and Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and […]