
Plutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

James Longenbach ‘made a central and rich place for poetry’ at Rochester
The English professor and acclaimed poet devoted his life’s work to studying, teaching, and writing poetry.

Is this the year you’re going to read Ulysses by James Joyce?
Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.

Walt Whitman ‘more important now than ever’
On the anniversary of the Walt Whitman’s death, Ed Folsom ’76 (PhD) looked back on the legacy of the poet’s work, examples of which are available in the University’s libraries.

English professor’s cotranslation of poetry wins PEN American Literary Award
Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.

National Endowment for the Arts grant supports Open Letter’s ‘International Voices’ project
Lauded for contributing to Rochester’s creative economy, the nonprofit literary translation press will publish five works of literature with the funding.

Novelist Joanna Scott returns to short stories in Excuse Me While I Disappear
The acclaimed writer and University of Rochester English professor explores the theme of ‘lost stories.’

Mortality informs creativity in poet James Longenbach’s latest collection
Written in the aftermath of a cancer diagnosis, Forever is the University of Rochester English professor’s sixth book of poetry.

Open Letter novel wins National Book Award
Winter in Sokcho is the first title from the University’s literary translation press to be awarded the prize.

Pitching politics
The story of baseball in the United States is intertwined with that of the presidency, says senior English lecturer Curt Smith. In his new book he traces the points of connection from the colonial era to the present.