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2024-2025

• Jonathan Meiburg
• Bruna Dantas Lobato, Book Launch and Celebration
• Eduardo C. Corral
• Steven Duong ’19, Emily Mester ’14, and Clare Mao ’14
• Jessica Bruder
• Rachel Khong

2023–24

• Claire Forrest ’13
• Benjamin Percy and Aubrey Hirsch
• Tom Montgomery Fate
• Beth Nguyen and Vauhini Vara
• Belinda Tang and Ada Zhang
• Aron Aji and Ara Javaheri
• Carl Phillips
• Mark Doty

2022–23

• Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis
• Belinda Huijuan Tang and Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Sequoia Nagamatsu ’04
• Riva Lehrer
• Amy Silverberg
• jessica Care moore
• John Lee Clark
• Hao Phan (w/Hai-Dang Phan
• Sandra Lim and Gabrielle Calvocoressi (a mini-residency)
• Raven Leilani
• Willard Spiegelman
• Armando Montaño Memorial Lecture, Julian Rubinstein

2021–22

• Clare Mao ’14 and Emily Mester ’14
• Santiago Jose Sanchez and Larissa Pham
• Alix Ohlin in Conversation with W@G Director Dean Bakopoulos
• John Garrison and Dustin Dixon
• Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly
• Ralph James Savarese and Tilly Woodward
• Molly McCully Brown
• Terrance Hayes
• Jean Guerrero
• Claire Lombardo & Rachel Yoder

2020–21

• Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Hieu Minh Nguyen and Angel Nafis
• Jamel Brinkley
• Jenny Zhang and Tommy Pico
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay
• jessica Care moore
• Ralph Savarese and Steve Kuusisto
• Ada Limon
• Dean and Natalie Bakopoulos
• Dwayne Betts and Kiese Laymon
• Danielle Evans and Laura van den Berg
• Charles Baxter
• 51�Թ� alumni panel - Jumi Bello ’13, Soleil Ho ’09, and Concepción de León ’12
• Ed Pavlic and Derrick Harriell
• Hanif Abdurraqib
• Shanna Benjamin
• Alissa Nutting and Christina Lee
• Alexander Chee

2019–20

• Danez Smith
• Keah Brown and Lyz Lenz
• Charles Baxter
• Kaveh Akbar
• Carlos Gamerro
• Eileen Pollack
• Connelly Lecture: Rob Nixon
• Eleanor Glewwe
• Garth Greenwell and Brandon Taylor
• Ed Pavlic

2018–19

• Adrienne Celt ’06
• Jamel Brinkley
• Samantha Irby
• Michael Perry
• Solmaz Sharif
• Celebration of Global Writing with Alisa Ganieva, Salah Badis, Adriana Borja Enriquez, and Rasha Khayat
• Ralph Savarese
• John Garrison
• Christopher Castellani; Margot Livesey; Samantha Chang
• Hai-Dang Phan
• Tyehimba Jess
• Wil Haygood
• Aimee Nezhukamathil

2017–18

• Benjamin Percy
• Roy Scranton
• Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
• Kiese Laymon and R. Dwayne Betts
• Jamaal May and Tarfia Faizullah
• Louis Jenkins
• Carmen Machado and Alissa Nutting
• Lynn Powell
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Thisbe Nissen and Jay Baron Nicorvo
• Mark Montgomery and Irene “Tinker” Powell
• Ocean Vuong
• Marlon James
• Roxane Gay
• Stephen Kuusisto
• Hugo Hamilton
• Deborah Whaley
• The 51�Թ� Review

2016–17

• Hai-Dang Phan with Rick Barot
• Chris Martin
• Kazim Ali
• Dan Chaon and Lynda Barry
• Connelly Lecture: Rey Chow
• Hugo Hamilton, Irish novelist
• Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Junot Diaz
• Nichelle Tramble
• Dale Maharidge with Michael Williamson
• James McBride and The Good Lord Bird Band
• Bennett Sims
• The 51�Թ� Review

2015–16

• Dean Bakopoulos
• Kiese Laymon
• Jami Attenberg
• Ed Hirsch
• Antonya Nelson
• Richard Russo
• Jeffrey Harrison
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Edwidge Danticat
• Stephanie Ford
• Roxane Gay (cancelled)
• Rob Spillman
• Alissa Nutting
• The 51�Թ� Review

2014–15

• Kazim Ali
• Tom Rayfiel
• Mary Szybist
• Jess Row
• T. Geronimo Johnson
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Nami Mun
• Brian Turner
• Alison Bechdel
• Daphne Kalotay
• The 51�Թ� Review

2013–14

• Reading by 51�Թ� faculty members:
  • George Barlow
  • Dean Bakopoulos
  • Mike Cavanagh
  • Hai-Dang Phan
  • Paula Smith
  • Ralph Savarese
• Joy Castro
• Nathan Hoks and Roger Reeves
• Camille Dungy.
• Julie Kane
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Elizabeth Graver
• Eduardo Coral
• Elizabeth Kolbert
• Edwidge Danticat
• The 51�Թ� Review

2012–13

• Natalie Bakopoulos
• Sam Tanenhaus
• Charles Baxter
• May-lee Chai ’89
• Ron Wallace
• Davy and Peter Rothbart of FOUND Magazine
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Reading from Randa Jarrar
• Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Natasha Trethewey
• Katha Politt
• Madeleine Thein
• The 51�Թ� Review

2011–12

• Dean Bakopoulos
• Nell Regan
• Ed Pavlic
• Susanne Antonetta
• Bruce Whiteman
• Jeff Porter
• Jane Bernstein
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Marty Dobrow
• Kevin Brockmeier
• Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Mark Doty
• In Acting Shakespeare
• Ralph Savarese and Mike Cavanagh
• The 51�Թ� Review

2010–11

• Jeremy Jackson
• Curtis Sittenfeld
• Barry Lopez
• Patricia Hampl
• J. Harley McIlrath
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Mark Montgomery and Ira Strauber
• Richard Kenney
• Dorothy Allison
• Ilya Kaminsky and Gary Shteyngart
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• The 51�Թ� Review

2009–10

• Reading by 51�Թ� faculty members David Campbell and Josh Emmons
• Floyd Skloot
• Sam Tanenhaus ’77
• Mary Helen Stefaniak
• Mary Swander
• Tomaz Salamun
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Talk by Hal Wert
• Faculty reading by George Barlow and Kesho Scott
• Deborah Ager
• Leslie Marmon Silko
• Edward P. Jones
• Edward Hirsch ’72
• Terri Witek and Cyriaco Lopes
• Paul Harding

2008–09

• John Domini
• Adrienne Rich
• Stephen Kuusisto, Jim Crenner, and David Weiss
• David Mura’74
• Francisco Aragon
• Montserrat Fontes
• Matt Brennan ’77
• Jeff Porter
• Russell Leong
• Quincy Troupe
• Michael Hofmann
• V.V. Ganeshananthan and Saadi Simawe
• Adina Hoffman
• Vince Gotera

2007–08

• Rick Wirick
• Kevin Kopelson
• Marvin Bell
• Peter Cole
• Judith Tannenbaum
• Tessa Rumsey
• Amy Scattergood
• The 51�Թ� Review
• Josh Elder
• Padget Powell
• F. D. Reeve
• F. D. Reeve and Eric Chasalow
• Steve Andrews and Harley McIlrath
• Distinguished Author Ana Castillo
• Steve Kuusisto and Kenny Fries

2006–07

• Elizabeth Graver
• Brian Strause ’90
• Francine Prose
• Terri Witek
• Page Coulter
• Eugene Gloria
• Molly Peacock
• David Campbell
• Geri Doran
• Stephen Kuusisto
• Marvin Bell
• Lan Samantha Chang
• John Edgar Wideman
• Ralph Savarese

2005–06

• Kevin Brockmeier
• William Logan
• Margot Livesey
• Marilyn Chin
• Dan O’Brien
• Dominic Smith
• Joy Castro
• Marilynne Robinson
• Rebecca Wee
• Willard Spiegelman
• Ed Hirsch ’72
• Emily Wilson

2004–05

• Slimane Benaissa
• Steven Sidor ’90
• Debra Marquart
• James Hynes
• Pete Fromm
• W.S. Merwin

2003–04

• Taha Muhammad Ali
• Michael Hoffman
• Eric Pankey and Jennifer Atkinson
• Daniel Beachy-Quick
• Elizabeth McCracken
• David Lynn
• Brenda Hillman
• Margaret McMullan ’82
• Christopher Merrill
• Kevin Brockmeier
• Judith Mitchell
• Robert Olen Butler

2002–03

• Erika Krouse ’91
• Derek Walcott
• May-Lee Chai ’89
• F.D. Reeve
• Chris Offutt
• David Mura ’74
• Alex Parsons
• Sheryl St. Germaine
• Cole Swensen
• David Heath ’81
• Kevin Brockmeier
• Ellen Bryant Voigt