Readings

The Kenyon College English Department sponsors readings, lectures, and workshops by major poets and fiction writers, as well as readings by younger published writers, Kenyon faculty, and Kenyon's talented student writers. Writers who have visited Kenyon in recent years include Derek Walcott, Eavan Boland, E.L. Doctorow, Alan Shapiro, Les Murray, Craig Arnold, Robert Mezey, Wyatt Prunty, Paul Muldoon, Jeredith Merrin, Carter Revard, Diana Garcia, Tenaya Darlington, Dana Levin, Bruce Smith, Catie Rosemurgy, Susan Stewart, David Ferry, and Jason Sommer. Kenyon College is also a member of the Ohio Poetry Circuit, a group of eight Ohio colleges that cooperate to bring nationally-known poets to Ohio. Recent circuit poets have included the current and previous U.S. poet laureates, Billy Collins and Robert Pinsky, as well as many renowned poets such as Gerald Stern, Lynn Hejinian, Judith Hall, Jane Hirshfield, Heather McHugh, Carol Muske, Aga Shahid Ali, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Rafael Campo, Nick Carbo, Denise Duhamel, Lynne McMahon, Carl Philips, Sherod Santos, Chase Twichell, David Wagoner, and Rosanna Warren. Many campus organizations sponsor readings by student writers throughout the year. Each fall, the Kenyon Review Writer's Harvest reading brings together students, faculty, and other members of the Kenyon community for an evening of readings to benefit Interchurch and Salvation Army in Mount Vernon.