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Hammer Poetry Series: Maureen McLane

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of poems include World Enough, chosen Best Poetry Book of the Year by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker, and her genre-breaking book of criticism and biography My Poets was lauded as “the survey course of my dreams” by Loren Stein. As Christine Smallwood described her manifold talent in Harper’s, McLane’s “mix of the humorous and the cerebral is at once exuberant and rinsed with melancholy.” Organized and hosted by poet,...

On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore

Royce Hall room 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi’s film, “R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity,” followed by a panel discussion featuring UCLA Professors Saree Makdisi, Robin Kelley, and Shannon Speed. The film centers on the growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980, which was supported by left-wing movements worldwide, including Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, dubbed and screened in Japan. Our discussion engages with the promise, challenges, and limits to solidarity commitments with Palestine, while touching on the seminal role solidarity has played in the shaping of...

Material Poetics of Post-Digital Poetry w/ Holly Melgard

Text/Tech Lab, Kaplan Hall 211 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This event will include a reading and talk by Holly Melgard that will explore how the post-digital conditions of her textual environment play an integral part in shaping her creative practice as a poet. Register here to attend. Holly Melgard is the author of Read Me: Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse 2023) and Fetal Position (Roof 2021), the later of which was named by Jackie Ess as one of Artforum’s “Best of 2021.” She has self-published ten books of poetry on Troll Thread press, a publisher which she co-edits and designs with friends. Having performed her work at such sites...

Creative Writing Party Featuring Author in Residence Diana Khoi Nguyen

Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell and Kundiman fellow, and a member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s). She’s received an NEA fellowship and awards from the 92Y “Discovery” Poetry and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery contests. She teaches in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Drinks and light refreshments will be...

Tea and Conversation: Adam Moss

Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Adam Moss Adam Moss will discuss his writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Adam Moss at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to the public. Adam Moss was the editor of New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days. As editor of New York, he also oversaw the creation of five digital magazines: Vulture, The Cut, Daily Intelligencer, Grub Street, and The Strategist. During his...

Some Favorite Writers: Adam Moss

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

In Adam Moss’s new book The Work of Art, the former editor of New York magazine asks “What is the work of art?” Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss traces the tortuous paths and artist decisions that led to the making of transcendent novels, paintings, movies, songs, jokes, and more. Organized and hosted by author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson. Copresented by UCLA Department of English. Adam Moss was the editor of New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine,...

Hammer Poetry Series: V. Penelope Pelizzon

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic, Oshiwambo, Xhosa, and Italian contexts, these profound poems explore a life where displacement is the norm. Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation.

An Evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for an evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin, author of The Healer’s Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia, the poetry collections Coconut Milk  and A Drag Queen Named Pippi, as well as films such as Sinalela and 100 Tikis. Co-sponsored by UCLA Asian American Studies and UCLA American Indian Studies.

Tea and Conversation: Fae Myenne Ng

Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to the public. Fae Myenne Ng is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone and American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Rome Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan...

Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir, Orphan Bachelors, offers a personal, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Hua Hsu called Orphan Bachelors, “so many treasures at once: an enthralling memoir, an act of reckoning, a history of American exclusion and Chinatown resilience, an attempt to conjure the vast horizons that her forebears were never allowed to imagine.” Organized and hosted by author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson. Copresented by the UCLA Department of English. Fae Myenne Ng is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction...

What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour

Royce Hall, room 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour, born in Gaza City on April 22nd, 1998, is a touring poet and awarded author. He’s a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Japanese,...