Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Patricia Smith

ARC Fellow, Poet, Spoken-Word Performer, Playwright, Author, Writing Teacher, and Former Journalist.
Patricia Smith was a VIsiting Writer in ARC's Poetry & the Senses program in Spring 2020.

Patricia Smith is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Poetry Foundation, and a 2022 inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of nine books of poetry, includingUnshuttered (Feb 2023);Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book...

Jake Skeets

Visiting Writer, Poet
Jake Skeets was a Visiting Writer in ARC's Poetry & the Senses program in 2022.

Jake Skeets (he/him) is Tsi’naajínii born for Tábąąhá; his maternal grandparents are the Táchii’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Tódík’ózhí. Skeets is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. His debut collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, is a winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His honors include a 2020-2021 Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in...

Danez Smith

Visiting Writer, Poet, and Performer
Danez Smith was a Visiting Writer in ARC's Poetry & the Senses program in 2020.

Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez's poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The...

Craig Santos Perez

Poet, Essayist, and Publisher
Craig Santos Perez was an Poetry & the Senses Cohort Leader for Fellows in the Spring 2023 and a Visiting Writer in 2022.

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. In 1995, his family moved to California. He lived there for fifteen years before moving to Hawai‘i. Perez earned his BA in literature and creative writing in 2002 at the University of Redlands in California and his MFA in poetry at the University of San Francisco in 2006.

Perez has authored six books of poetry: From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023...

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie

Poet, Visiting Writer
D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie was a Visiting Writer in the Poetry & the Senses program in 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie is a queer, Native Hawaiian poet. He is the author of The Mana of Salt (Backbone Press, 2023), winner of the 2023 Backbone Press Chapbook Contest, and From Hunger to Prayer (Silverneedle Press, 2018). He lives in Kailua, on the island of Oahu in Hawai‘i.

Morgan Parker

ARC Fellow, Poet, Essayist, and Novelist
Morgan Parker was a Visiting Writer in ARC's Poetry & the Senses program. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections...

Matthew Olzmann

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth
Matthew Olzmann was an ARC Fellow in 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit. He received a BA from the University of Michigan–Dearborn and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is the author of Constellation Route (Alice James Books, 2022); Contradictions in the Design (Alice James Books, 2016); and Mezzanines (Alice James Books, 2013), winner of the 2011...

Layli Long Soldier: Poetry Reading + Conversation with Solmaz Sharif

April 1, 2026
Read more about Layli Long Soldier's work at the Poetry Foundation here Read more about Solmaz Sharif's work at the Poetry Foundation here

Sam Aros-Mitchell, IPAR Artist-in-Residence

April 20, 2026
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Sam Aros-Mitchell Choregrapher/Performer April 20 – 24, 2026

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A collaborative program by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the...

Lawrence Rinder

Contemporary Art Curator, Museum Director, Writer, and Former Director of BAMPFA
Lawrence R. Rinder was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium at the Arts Research Center on February 6, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website or social media.

Lawrence R. Rinder was the Director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) from 2008 to 2020. Previously, he was the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Rinder also served as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of...