The Bucknell community has been deeply affected by the loss of Carmen Gillespie, professor of English and director of the Griot Center for the Study…

Poet, essayist, editor and Susquehanna University professor Karla Kelsey will join American poet, translator, travel writer and Allegheny College professor Christopher Bakken to present free,…

Bucknell University will host Dayeinu! Beyond Survival There is Hope  Nov. 2-9 — a week of free, public workshops, lectures, films and musical performances that…

American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni will present a free, public lecture entitled Grit, Grace and Glow as part of the Griot…

Poet and novelist Laura Kasischke will present a free, public poetry reading on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall as part of…

The Bucknell Faculty Staff Christian Association, Bucknell Catholic Campus Ministry, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Bucknell Orthodox Christian Fellowship have joined together to…

Bucknell University English professors Paula Closson Buck and G.C. Waldrep will present a free poetry reading on Thursday, Nov. 29,  at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall as part of the 2018-19 Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts Writers Series.

The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts will host its annual student reading on Thursday, April 11 at 5 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. The free, public event brings together the winners of Bucknell's two literary contests, the Cadigan Prizes for Younger Writers and the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, for a formal reading in Bucknell Hall.

The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts will present Bucknell English professors Carmen Gillespie and Joseph Scapellato for a free, public faculty poetry reading on Tuesday, April 23 at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall.

Orthodox Christians in the area will commemorate the centennial with an Akathist prayer service led by the Very Rev. Archpriest Claude Vinyard and conducted by vocalist Matushka Anna Sharonoff at Bucknell's Rooke Chapel on Sunday, July 17, from 7-8 p.m. The service will include brief historical talks by Bucknell English professor Alf  Siewers and Father George Sharonoff.

The Stadler Center for Poetry will welcome Bucknell's 2018 Poet-in-Residence Camille T. Dungy, author of four books of poetry, for a reading on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. A reception and book-signing will follow the reading. All Stadler Center Writers Series events are free and open to the public.

Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and author of nearly 30 books, will read from his novel, Erasure, and then lead conversation on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center. His talk is co-sponsored by the English Department and made possible through the support of the University Lectureship Committee. It is part of the semester-long, interdisciplinary series "Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility," by the Griot Institute for Africana Studies.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian ’73 is the 13th Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters at Bucknell University, becoming the first Bucknell graduate to receive the honor. The Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Director of Creative Writing at Colgate University, he will accept the award during a ceremony on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. After the presentation, Balakian will read from his poetry and memoir, and then engage in a moderated discussion with Bucknell Professor of English Harold Schweizer. A book-signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Simone Kraus, professor of translation studies, translator and writer, will present a free, public lecture entitled, “Philip Roth and ‘The Other Europe:’ New Perspectives…

The third biennial Bucknell Intercollegiate Film Festival (BIFF) will take place on Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m. at the historic Campus Theatre in downtown Lewisburg. A post-festival catered reception is scheduled at the Samek Art Museum’s Downtown Art Gallery across the street from the theatre.