Poet Adam Fitzgerald and five seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University will read from their work at 6 p.m. on Friday, October 21 at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. The reading is part of the C. K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet who served on Princeton’s creative writing faculty for 20 years. 

The series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing alongside established writers as special guests.

Featuring student writers Nicole Acheampong, Alice Frederick, Joan Lee, Hannah Srajer, and Nathan Yoo, the event is free and open to the public.

Adam Fitzgerald is a poet, editor, essayist, and educator. His newest book of poems, George Washington, was published by W. W. Norton’s historic Liveright imprint in September. His first book of poems, The Late Parade(2013), was hailed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review as “a new and welcome sound in the aviary of contemporary poetry.” In 2015, he became contributing editor for Literary Hub, where he curates monthly poetry features. His recent work can be found in Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Co-founder of The Home School, he has also taught at Rutgers University, New York University, Columbia University, and Poets House.

The five seniors, who are pursuing a certificate in creative writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read from their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working on a novel, a screenplay, translations, or a collection of poems or short stories as a part of a creative thesis for the certificate.

To learn more about these reading series, the Program in Creative Writing, and the more than 100 public events presented each year by the Lewis Center for the Arts, visit arts.princeton.edu.

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