October 21, 2025 Patricia Smith: Poetry Reading April 7, 2025 Ayesha Ramachandran: "Conjuring Persons: Lyric and Humanism" September 17, 2024 Poetry Reading: Lorna Goodison March 29, 2024 Poets and Scholars Meet for "Poetry and Climate Change" Symposium March 23, 2023 Dunja Dušanić Lectures on Poetry as a Witness to Catastrophe April 1, 2022 "Poetry, Place, Displacement" Symposium Gathers Distinguished Poets and Scholars October 5, 2018 "Poetry and Race" Symposium Brings Poets, Critics to Grounds September 25, 2018 Ardis Butterfield Lectures on "Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?" April 19, 2018 Virginia Jackson Lectures on "Becoming Lyric" April 6, 2018 "Poetry and the World" Features Renowned Poets, Critics October 26, 2017 Jonathan Culler Lectures on "Theory of the Lyric" March 17, 2017 "What is a Poem?" Symposium Kicks Off Poetry Center
September 25, 2018 Ardis Butterfield Lectures on "Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?"
