Past Events

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Wednesday, October 12 2022 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Lecture: The Rise of Right-Wing Comedy (Nick Marx, Colorado State University)

Please join us at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, October 12th in Curtin Hall 368 for a lecture and Q&A with Dr. Nick Marx, author of That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them.  That's Not Funny argues...

Thursday, October 28 2021 7PM

October 28, 2022 at 7PM: Creative Writing Program Visiting Writers Series with Author Lysley Tenorio

Author Lysley Tenorio will discuss and read from his collection, MONSTRESS, and his novel, THE SON OF GOOD FORTUNE, followed by a Q&A with the audience. This FREE event will be both in-person (UWM Curtin Hall, Rm 175) and live-streamed,...

Thursday, October 7 2021 7PM

October 07, 2021 at 7PM: UNITED WE READ: A Creative Writing Event

UWM Creative Writing Program Student-Faculty Reading Series at 7PM Featuring Doreen Pfost Korey Hurni Camilla Lee Brenda Cárdenas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KASe3ylnk0I

Wednesday, April 21 2021 5:00pm - 6:00pm

March 21, 2021: Ask the Editor: A Q&A Session with Dzanc Books Editor-in-Chief, Michelle Dotter

Hosted by Furrow. Free & Open to the Public Please register in advance at this link. Submit questions in advance here.   Have you ever wondered what it takes for a book to get published? Join UWM’s undergraduate literary journal, Furrow, on Wednesday,...

Tuesday, April 23 2019 7:00 PM

Eat Local::Read Local

  Since 2008, UWM English Department’s Eat Local:: Read Local has been celebrating the partnerships between local restaurants and poets from Milwaukee and Madison, WI.

Thursday, April 11 2019 7:00 PM

United We Read: Brenda Cárdenas, Jenni Moody, Kathryne David Gargano, Beatrice Szymkowiak

United We Read is Plan C’s student-faculty reading series that takes place in venues throughout the community. This edition takes place at Material Studios and features Brenda Cárdenas, Jenni Moody, Kathryne David Gargano, and Beatrice Szymkowiak.

Thursday, February 21 2019 7:00 PM

Fiction Reading and Craft Talk: C. Dale Young

Fiction Reading: C. Dale Young Thursday February 21st Hefter Center 7:00pm Craft Talk 2:00pm Mitchell Hall 191 Presented by the UWM English Department in partnership with cream city review, and co-sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center and the Center for Latin American...

Thursday, February 14 2019 7:00 PM

Poetry Reading: Rodrigo Toscano

  Rodrigo Toscano is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Explosion Rocks Springfield. His collection In Range is forthcoming from Chax Book 2019. HisCollapsible Poetics Theater was a National Poetry Series selection, and he is the recipient of a New York State Fellowship...

Thursday, February 7 2019 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

United We Read: Liam Callanan, Molly Beckwith Gutman, Beth Vigoren, and Ryan Burden

United We Read is Plan C’s student-faculty reading series that takes place is venues throughout the community. This edition will take place at Boswell Books (2559 N Downer Ave) and will feature Liam Callanan, Molly Beckwith Gutman, Beth Vigoren, and Ryan...

Thursday, March 15 2018 7:00 PM

The UWM Visiting Writer’s Series Presents Dan Kois

On March 15, please join essayist and editor Dan Kois, co-author of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, for a discussion (and partial reading) of his oral history of Tony Kushner’s pioneering, Pulitzer-prizewinning play.