The Department of English, with the support of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review, will award the $20,000 prize during a gala at USC on April 18.
Hiram Sims opens the Sims Library of Poetry, a space for people from Inglewood and the rest of Los Angeles to read, write and create.
Thoughts on speaking Spanish and passing as white all come out in a starkly honest Q&A with spoken word artist and USC alum David A. Romero.
Get to know the award-winning poet laureate, theologian and USC writer in residence.
Anna Journey takes a walk on the dark side in poems and essays about graveyards, infidelities and tattoos.
The accomplished USC author will consult with the organization and act as an ambassador of poetry in the world at large.
Safiya Sinclair, whose first poem was published at the age of 16 in her home of Jamaica, garners the 2016 Whiting Award.
Professor Dana Gioia, California’s poet laureate, reveals his strategy for writing winning prose.
The California native will present public readings in classrooms, boardrooms and other places during his two-year term.
Two USC Viterbi computational linguists use a method that takes more than 11 years to break.
