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Creative Writing

Composite image: left, Black and white portrait of Sigrid Nunez with her hand on her face. Right, Book cover for Sigrid Nunez's work "what are you going through" The cover is teal and pictures a cat sitting on the arm of a couch.

Books

National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez Explores Life, Death, and Empathy in New Novel

November 13, 2020

Composite image: on the left, a close-up portrait of poet Natasha Trethewey, her bangs sway to the right over her eyes, photo by Matt Valentine; on the right, the book cover for "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir" by Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize Winner. On the cover, a sepia photo of Trethewey's mother holding her as a young baby.

Poetry

Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey to Lead Thursday’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

October 15, 2020

Composite image: on the right, Dr. Muhammad Zaman poses for a photo in his lab on Thursday, April 27, 2017, photo by Jackie Ricciardi; on the right, a black and white portrait of Sigrid Nunez, a College of Arts & Sciences lecturer in creative writing, photo by Marrion Ettlinger.

Accolades

Two BU Faculty Honored with Guggenheim Fellowships

April 22, 2020

Writer and novelist Dariel Suarez (CFA’12) sits in his office with his laptop open on a desk behind him.

Arts & Culture

The “American Dirt” Controversy: Lessons for Writers on Getting Cultures Right

February 24, 2020

A portrait of Viet Thanh Nguyen who will be delivering the 2019 Ha Jin Lecture

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to Give Ha Jin Lecture Tonight

November 19, 2019

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye smiles for a photo while standing on a bridge

Arts & Culture

“Wandering Poet” Naomi Shihab Nye Headlines Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

November 5, 2019

Portrait of Mark Halliday

Arts & Culture

Poet Mark Halliday Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading Thursday

April 10, 2019

a portrait of Marilyn Chin

Creative Writing

Marilyn Chin Headlines Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading

October 25, 2018

A black and white portrait of George Sanders

Literature

Lincoln in the Bardo Author George Saunders Reads at BU Tonight

October 9, 2018

Literature

Lyric Poets Headline Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

April 17, 2018

Arts & Culture

A Sure Sign of Spring: Creative Writing Program Faculty Reading Tonight

April 10, 2018

The Roman Colosseum at Dawn.

Creative Writing

The Allure of the Eternal City

March 14, 2018

A photo series inspired by the meaning of the color red in Chinese culture. Photo by Evan Vidan

Painting

Expressing Themselves in Charcoal

February 7, 2018

Geoffrey M Cooper signs copies of his novel, the Prize.

Books

CAS Biology Professor Pens First Thriller

January 16, 2018

Poets Mark Doty and Tomas Unger

Poetry

Poet Mark Doty Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading Headliner

October 26, 2017

University News

Robert Lowell Poetry Reading: Prize-Winning Poet Tom Sleigh

April 13, 2017

Lisa Rosinsky inside Boston Public Library office

Boston

A Room of Her Own

February 23, 2017

Jennifer Haigh thumbnail

Creative Writing

Jennifer Haigh Reads Tonight at the Castle

November 9, 2016

Rita Dove

Literature

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading: Rita Dove

October 6, 2016

C. D. Wright

Poetry

Lowell Poetry Reading to Pay Tribute to C. D. Wright

April 13, 2016

Lowell Poetry Reading to Pay Tribute to C. D. Wright