Upcoming Events
October 21, 2025
5:30 pm in Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Philip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge, Shrapnel Maps, and The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance. His poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and scholarship have garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, and other honors. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.” He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. Philip’s reading will be followed by a Q&A. All are welcome.
October 23, 2025
2:45 pm in the International Lounge
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is proud to host two-spirit author Carson Faust (Edisto Natchez-Kusso) for a campus visit in celebration of his debut novel, If the Dead Belong Here (Viking, Oct 7 2025). The visit will feature a public reading, followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A with Allen-Berenson Fellow Dr. Preston Taylor Stone exploring themes of queer Indigeneity and the gothic, central to Faust’s work.
Book Giveaway Sponsored by Creative Writing.
October 28, 2025
3:30 in Lown 202
Maria Pinto, Brandeis Alum and Creative Writing major, returns to celebrate the publication of her first book: Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival (Great Circle Books)
“Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adventure..." Publishers Weekly
Co-sponsored with AAAS. Book Giveaway Sponsored by Creative Writing
November 13, 2025
5:30, Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Creative Writing will host a talk and reading by Sam Wachman, a recent Brandeis graduate whose first novel, The Sunflower Boys, has earned critical and commercial success.
“Tender and poignant, shot through with deep sadness and wry humor, The Sunflower Boys is a bittersweet rendering of life in modern-day Ukraine, the effect of war on ordinary lives, and a young person discovering who he is.” — Shelf Awareness (starred review)
