ENAM Events

Upcoming Events

  • Annual Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies: Peter Cole on “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life”

    The 35th Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies

    A Mini-Residency, October 17-18

    Lecture, Tuesday, October 17

    Poet and translator Peter Cole will speak on “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life”

    4:30 pm, Twilight Hall Auditorium

    Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

    Peter Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

    4:30 pm, Abernethy Room, Axinn Center at Starr Library

    Twilight Auditorium 101

    Open to the Public
  • Peter Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (part of the 2023-24 Quint Lectureship in Jewish Studies)

    Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

    Peter Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

    4:30 pm, Abernethy Room, Axinn Center at Starr Library

    Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies and the Program in Creative Writing

    (For information on Mr. Cole’s Quint Lecture, see the listing for Wednesday, Oct. 17, 4:30 p.m.

    Axinn Center Winter Garden

    Open to the Public
  • Nana-Ama Danquah,“The Beautiful Deception of Wellness”

    The line between wellness and illness seems thick, well drawn, and impermeable. We believe ourselves, and others, to be firmly situated on one side or the other. But that is not true. We all come to realize this about physical illness. We come to realize that eventually it will touch and alter our lives, either through our own direct experience or that of a loved one. So, we begin to learn the language of cancer, of Alzheimer’s, of Parkinson’s. What of mental illness, though?

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public
  • An Evening of Poetry

    Poets Emily Lee Luan (‘15), Leslie Sainz (Managing Editor, New England Review), and Margaret Ray (‘07) will read from their new collections. More information can be found on the English Department events webpage.

    Axinn Center Winter Garden

    Open to the Public

About the Poets:

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Emily Lee Luan (‘15)

Emily Lee Luan is the author of 回 / Return, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, Best New Poets 2019, American Poetry Review, Lithub, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University–Newark and is a 2023–24 Visiting Assistant Professor in the Syracuse University MFA program.

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Margaret Ray (‘07)

Margaret Ray grew up in Gainesville, Florida.  She is the author of GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions, 2023, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize selected by Stephanie Burt) and the chapbook SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC (2022, selected by Jericho Brown for the 2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Prize).  Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Best New Poets 2021, The Yale Review, Narrative, and elsewhere.  A winner of the Third Coast Poetry Prize and a shortlister for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, she holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and teaches in New Jersey.  She’s on Twitter & BlueSky (for now) @mbrrray, on Instagram (sometimes) @m_rrray, and you can find more of her work at www.margaretbray.com

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Leslie Sainz

Leslie Sainz is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023). The daughter of Cuban exiles, she is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Yale ReviewKenyon ReviewNarrative, and elsewhere. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, she’s received scholarships, fellowships, and honors from CantoMundo, the Miami Writers Institute, the Adroit Journal, and the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. She is the managing editor of New England Review and lives in Vermont.