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.
USC poet Anna Journey is unafraid to explore the quirky, creepy, scary and plain old peculiar.
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.
Robin Coste Lewis garners the prestigious literary honor for her first book of poems.
Fulbright fellow returns to the region that kindles his creativity.
Two USC Viterbi computational linguists use a method that takes more than 11 years to break.
The award winner will teach literature and creative writing at USC Dornsife.
For USC Dornsife poet Anna Journey, humor collides with horror, yielding an unstable dynamic that creates tension in works of literature.
Alumna Barbara Duffey wants science to influence her message.
Lecturer Brandon Som wins the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for The Tribute Horse.
David St. John to read his poetry backed by USC Thornton performers.
The prolific writer will be honored for her impact on the landscape of contemporary poetry.
Marcus Levitt and Alexander Zholkovsky are honored for illuminating Russian history and culture.
Language poet Rae Armantrout chooses a manuscript by Hannah Sanghee Park.
Many PhD students find the dissertation writing process taxing enough to inspire a break after graduation, but Elizabeth Cantwell hasn’t broken her stride.
Dana Gioia joins a list of the greatest contemporary American poets who have already been bestowed this national prize honoring lifetime achievement.
A long-standing love affair between words and the visual arts at USC Fisher Museum heated up when poet David St. John read six new love poems at a special event.