Upcoming Events

All are welcome to attend the Poetry Club meetings, held on Thursday evenings every two weeks. Hosted by Assistant Professor Joanna Fuhrman, the event allows for sharing and generating work. Any level is welcome. Bring your notebook or laptop and write together with your friends. Snacks provided. 

Join us for the kick-off event of the Writers at Rutgers with novel and screenwriter, Tananarive Due. Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their upcoming Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Life-writing: Write for Your Life!"

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A MotherDaughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.   

Students are welcome to attend both the Q&A at 4 PM in Murray Hall and the reading at 7:30 PM in the Student Center Multimedia Room. More info at tananarivedue.com.

Questions? Email ncp64@english.rutgers.edu.

Join fellow writers to share poetry and be inspired. Writing prompts will be given and snacks will be served. All are welcome!

Join fellow writers to share poetry and be inspired. Writing prompts will be given and snacks will be served. All are welcome!

All are welcome to attend the Poetry Club meetings, held on Thursday evenings every two weeks. Hosted by Assistant Professor Joanna Fuhrman, the event allows for sharing and generating work. Any level is welcome. Bring your notebook or laptop and write together with your friends. Snacks provided

Douglas Kearney has published nine books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023, Optic Subwoof, a collection of his Bagley Wright lectures, won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. His seventh, Sho, (Wave Books) is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner and a National Book Award, Pen America, and Kingsley Tufts Award finalist. Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), is the winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry and silver medalist for the California Book Award (Poetry). BOMB says: “[Buck Studies] remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic, personal and historical.” M. NourbeSe Philip calls Kearney’s collection of libretti, Someone Took They Tongues. (Subito, 2016), “a seismic, polyphonic mash-up that disturbs the tongue.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publisher’s Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” Starts Spinning (Rain Taxi), a chapbook of poetry, saw publication in 2019.

Fodder, an LP featuring Kearney and frequent collaborator/SoundChemist, Val Jeanty, was published by Fonograf Editions (2021). WIRE Magazine calls it “Brilliant.”

His work is widely anthologized, including Best American Poetry (2014, 2015), Best American Experimental Writing (2014), Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Culture and Literature, The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice, What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, The Future of Black, and Conceptualisms. He is also widely published in magazines and journals, including Poetry, Callaloo, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, Jacket2, and Lana Turner. His work has been exhibited at the American Jazz Museum, Temple Contemporary, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and The Visitor’s Welcome Center (Los Angeles).

Kearney received OPERA America’s Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell. He has had four operas staged, most recently Sweet Land, which received rave reviews from The LA Times, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Weekly, and was named Opera of the Year (2021) by the Music Critics Association of North America. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a McKnight Writing Fellowship, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. A Howard University and CalArts alum, Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities where he is a McKnight Presidential Fellow. Born in Brooklyn, raised in Altadena, CA, he lives with his family in St. Paul.

All are welcome to attend the Poetry Club meetings, held on Thursday evenings every two weeks. Hosted by Assistant Professor Joanna Fuhrman, the event allows for sharing and generating work. Any level is welcome. Bring your notebook or laptop and write together with your friends. Snacks provided. Questions? Contact jfuhrman@english.rutgers.edu. 

Join us for presentations of award-winning student fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and multimedia. Family and friends are welcome. Delicious refreshments will be served. Questions? Contact ncp64@english.rutgers.edu. 

All are welcome to attend the Poetry Club meetings, held on Thursday evenings every two weeks. Hosted by Assistant Professor Joanna Fuhrman, the event allows for sharing and generating work. Any level is welcome. Bring your notebook or laptop and write together with your friends. Snacks provided. Questions? Contact jfuhrman@enlish.rutgers.edu.