Written Arts News
Valeria Luiselli Interviewed in the New Yorker
Luiselli was interviewed about her story “Predictions and Presentiments,” which is drawn from her upcoming book, Beginning Middle End.
Valeria Luiselli Interviewed in the New Yorker
Valeria Luiselli. Photo by Alfredo Pelcastre
The Written Arts Program at Bard encourages students to experiment with their writing in a context sensitive to intellectual, historical, and social realities. Students are encouraged to consider writing as an act of critical and creative engagement, a way of interrogating and translating the world.
Post Date: 02-16-2026
D.M. Aderibigbe’s Collection 82nd Division Featured in Multiple Publications
Since its release, it has been reviewed by Literary Hub and received a starred review in Booklist.
D.M. Aderibigbe’s Collection 82nd Division Featured in Multiple Publications
D.M. Aderibigbe and his collection 82nd Division.
Aderibigbe was also interviewed by Frontier Poetry. “In my second collection, I was wholly invested in the formal elements of each poem,” he said. “It was important to me [that] the form of each poem adds some degree of complexity to it.” He will give a reading of the collection with Ann Lauterbach on January 29 at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck.
Aderibigbe teaches in Bard’s Written Arts program, which encourages students to experiment with their writing in a context sensitive to intellectual, historical, and social realities. Students are encouraged to consider writing as an act of critical and creative engagement, a way of interrogating and translating the world.
Post Date: 01-27-2026
Professor Dinaw Mengestu Featured in Poughkeepsie Journal
Mengestu said, "When I think of the thing that I really want to uphold and protect most, it's literature."
Professor Dinaw Mengestu Featured in Poughkeepsie Journal
Dinaw Mengestu. Photo by Anne-Emmanuelle Robicquet
Dinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How To Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. He has taught in Bard’s Written Arts Program since 2016.
The Written Arts Program at Bard encourages students to experiment with their writing in a context sensitive to intellectual, historical, and social realities. Students are encouraged to consider writing as an act of critical and creative engagement, a way of interrogating and translating the world.
Post Date: 01-21-2026
Upcoming Events
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2/17Tuesday5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
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2/23Monday5:10 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Center for Ethics and Writing Journal Launch
Monday, February 23, 2026
5:10 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Come celebrate the first issue of the Center for Ethics and Writing Journal!
The CEW Journal is a collection of student writing from Center-supported writing workshops across Bard, including those taught at Bard College's Annandale campus and the Bard Microcolleges in Harlem and Brooklyn. The Journal also includes poetry from one of the Center for Ethics and Writing's Fellows, Mahtab Yaghma.
Come and enjoy some refreshments and grab a print copy of the Center's Journal. This reception will be followed by a reading with novelist and Bard alum Stephanie Wambugu '20 at 6pm.
Contact: Megan Brien
E-mail: [email protected]
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2/23Monday6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A Reading with Stephanie Wambugu '20
Monday, February 23, 2026
6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Monday, February 23rd, at 6pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center, writer and Bard alum Stephanie Wambugu '20 will read from her work. This reading is free and open to the public.
Stephanie Wambugu lives in New York City. She was born in Mombasa, Kenya and grew up in New England. Her work appears in The Nation, Granta, frieze, Bookforum and The Drift. Her debut novel Lonely Crowds was published by Little, Brown in 2025. Learn more about Stephanie Wambugu's work here.
This reading will be preceded by a reception for the Center for Ethics and Writing Journal at 5:10pm. All are welcome to join.
Contact: Megan Brien
E-mail: [email protected]
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3/02Monday6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
North Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
A Reading with Peter Gizzi
Monday, March 2, 2026
6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
North Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
On Monday, March 2, at 6pm in the Campus Center North Multipurpose Room, poet Peter Gizzi will read from his work. This reading is free and open to the public.
Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry, including Fierce Elegy (2023), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award, Now It's Dark (2020), Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award, Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 (2014), a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. Marjorie Perloff has called him "a master of the mot juste and of sound structure;" Robert Creeley, "one of the most exceptional poets of his generation." Adrienne Rich has said "his disturbing lyricism is like no other;" and John Ashbery thought him "the most exciting new poet to come along in quite a while." He lives in Holyoke, MA.
Contact: Megan Brien
E-mail: [email protected]