The Castalia Reading Series Instituted by the late Nelson Bentley , Castalia is a forum that showcases MFA students' works in progress. The Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading Begun in 1965, the annual Roethke readings are held in late May, and honor the memory of Theodore Roethke, who taught in the English Department at the University of Washington from 1947 to 1964. Former Roethke readers have included such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Hugo, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, W. S. Merwin, Carolyn Kizer, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, May Swenson, Denise Levertov, Mark Strand, Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, and Charles Wright. This literary journal has been published at the University of Washington since 1978. MFA students often serve as fiction readers, screening the numerous prose submissions the Review receives each year.
Poetry is submitted to a separate board.
Colleen McElroy is the editor of this publication. This all-poetry journal, edited by David Wagoner, has been published at the University of Washington since 1960. Bricolage Bricolage is an undergraduate-run literary publication. Around Town Seattle is known for a variety of literary events. The Friends of Nelson Bentley , founded by former students of the late UW Professor Nelson Bentley, sponsors poetry readings and has established the Bentley Fellowship for MFA Students in Poetry at the University of Washington.