Visiting Writers Series

The English & Philosophy Department brings a renowned poet, fiction writer or essayist to campus each semester, to meet with students and to offer a public reading of their work.

Fall 2025

Join us on Monday, Oct. 20, at 6 p.m. in the Center for Innovation and Science atrium for a reading by the poet Hannah Brooks-Motl. This event is free and open to the public.

Hannah Brooks-Motl

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Hannah Brooks-Motl is the author of the poetry collections The New Years (2014), M (2015), Earth (2019), and Ultraviolet of the Genuine (2025), as well as chapbooks from the Song Cave, Arrow as Aarow, and The Year. She earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She lives in western Massachusetts.

 

 

Previous Visiting Writers


Kelly Link 2025
Forrest Gander 2024
Stephanie Stinson 2024
Stephanie Burt 2023
Jeffrey  Young 2023
Mary-Kim Arnold 2022
Joanna Howard 2022
Julie Carr 2021
Caryl Pagel 2021
Khadijah Queen 2020
Chavisa Woods 2020