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Upcoming Speakers

2024-25 Speaker Series


Spring 2025

  • Thursday, 2/13 at 5pm: Author & Plan II alum Margaret Juhae Lee in conversation with Madeline Vosch, in partnership with the Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Asian American Studies
  • Thursday, 3/6 at 6pm: Poet Jane Huffman, presented by the Crip Narratives Collective and co-sponsored by the New Writers Project
  • Tuesday, 3/25 at 6:30pm: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips, in conversation with Michener Center visiting professor Jennifer Elise Foerster, in partnership with the Michener Center for Writers (*At the Harry Ransom Center)
  • Tuesday, 4/1 at 5pm: Writer and visual artist Riva Lehrer, in partnership with the New Writers Project
  • Thursday, 4/3 at 6pm: Internationally-bestselling novelist Colum McCann (and UT alum!), celebrating Apricity/Analecta Magazine's 50th Anniversary, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts

For more information about the Joynes Room Speaker Series, call 512-471-5787 or write Zack Schlosberg.

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Jane Huffman will read from her APR/Honickman First Book Prize-winning book Public Abstract in the Joynes Reading Room, presented by the Crip Narratives Collective.

POETRY READING & CONVERSATION WITH JANE HUFFMAN
Thursday, 3/6 @ 6pm, CRD #007 (2501 Whitis Ave.)

On Thursday, March 6th at 6pm, the Joynes Reading Room will host poet Jane Huffman, presented by The Crip Narratives Collective with additional support from the The New Writers Project. Huffman will read from and discuss her incredible debut collection, Public Abstract, winner of the prestigious 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Through experiments in revision and failure, Public Abstract observes the rippling effects of processes of illness, addiction, recovery, and loss in a collection Donna Vorreyer calls "a web of language that lulls the reader into a type of hypnotic state, one full of music and emotion and, yes, beauty." Reception and Q&A will follow. 

Jane Huffman is a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Denver and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, an online literary journal. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips will read from his latest collection, Scattered Snows, to the North on Tuesday 3/25 at 6:30pm at the Harry Ransom Center.

POETRY READING & CONVERSATION WITH CARL PHILLIPS
Tuesday 3/25 @ 6:30pm, Harry Ransom Center (300 W 21st St, Austin TX 78712)

Plan II and the Michener Center for Writers present a special evening at the Harry Ransom Center with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips on Tuesday 3/25 at 6:30pm. RSVP here to attend. Phillips will read from his latest work, Scattered Snows, to the North (2024) and participate in a conversation with Michener Center visiting poet Jennifer Elise Foerster. The reading will be followed by a book signing and reception brought to us by the Plan II Glickman Lectureship.

Free copies of Phillips's books are now available on a first-come first-served basis at the Joynes Reading Room. Additionally, Plan II students interested in attending a small-group Q&A with Carl at 3pm on 3/25 may sign up here.