Celebrate the release of Caesura, UD’s student literary journal that features a collection of short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction and artwork from undergraduate students. Student authors will read their work and guest judge G.C. Waldrep will present awards. A reception follows in the lobby of Memorial Hall.

Caesura and this evening’s event are possible through the generous support of the Gregory Family in honor of Elda Wollaeger Gregory’s love of creative writing. 

Guest Judge G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo/Carcanet, 2021); and The Opening Ritual (Tupelo, 2024), one of the New York Times’s five best poetry collections of 2024.  Recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Yale Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Conjunctions, and other journals. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University.

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