Recent visitors to the Poetry Center have included Grace Paley, Thomas Lux, Paul Muldoon, Arthur Sze, Doris Lessing, Mary Gordon, Ana Castillo, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Mamet, Helen Vendler, Donald Justice, W. S. Merwin, Scott Turow, Molly Peacock, Marilyn Chin, and Adam Zagajewski. In addition, the School's Visiting Artists Program brings artists, writers, critics, and scholars to the School to teach, lecture, and participate in critiques. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Doris Dorrie, and Henry Louis Gates. The program's flexible structure accommodates individual needs and exploration. Electives offer the opportunity for writers to take interdisciplinary seminars on a variety of subjects or courses offered by studio departments.
Students complete a poetry or prose project of appropriate length in their final semester.
See admissions for further details.