The Writing Seminars hosts a wide array of writers across literary disciplines, including poets, novelists, translators, and biographers. Our fortnightly reading series connects acclaimed writers from around the world with Baltimore communities at Johns Hopkins and beyond.
Our events are always free and open to the public, and include lively Q&A, catered receptions, books signings, and sales in partnership with Greedy Reads. If you would like to receive email announcements about our events, please contact wsreadings-request@lists.johnshopkins.edu.
Latest Past Events
Robyn Schiff: William J. Sullivan, Jr. and Richard H. Elder Visiting Poet
Gilman Hall 50Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections: Worth (University of Iowa Press, 2002), Revolver(University of Iowa Press, 2008), A Woman of Property(Penguin, 2016), and Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin, 2023), which was […]
President’s Series, Literature of Social Import: Hari Kunzru
Krieger 205Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels, including Blue Ruin, forthcoming from Knopf on May 14, 2024. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the […]
Christopher Childers: a Reading and Conversation with Karen ni Mheallaigh
Mudd 26 @ Johns Hopkins University 3400 N Charles St, BaltimoreChristopher Childers is a poet and translator living in Baltimore, MD. He has published poems, essays and translations in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Matters, and Smartish Pace, […]