Creative Writing

Sarah Hennessey

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sarah Hennessey was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Sarah Hennessey is Nimíipuu and she is a poet, performer, playwright, and youth empowerment theater practitioner. Her work highlights the symbiosis of storytelling and language reclamation. By integrating her penchant for literature and performance into her educational outreach, Sarah infuses her instruction with not just interdisciplinary pedagogy, but also both traditional and contemporary...

Lyn Hejinian

Spring 2011 ARC Fellow, Essayist, Translator, and Publisher
Lyn Hejinian was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian was a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. Her poetry is characterized by an unusual lyricism and descriptive engagement with the everyday. She authored many poetry collections, including ...

Terrance Hayes

MacArthur Fellow, Poet, and Educator
Terrance Hayes gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on March 17, 2021.

Terrance Hayes is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1971, and educated at Coker College where he studied painting and English and was an Academic All-American on the men’s basketball team. After receiving his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, he taught in southern Japan, Columbus, Ohio, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Hayes taught at Carnegie...

Yona Harvey

Poet and Professor of Poetry at Smith College
Yona Harvey gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love,which received the 2020 Award in Poetry from The Believermagazine. Hemming the Water, her first book of poems, was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award.

She received the Inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award in Poetry from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and...

Joy Harjo

Performer, Writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 22, 2020.

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo draws on First Nation storytelling and histories, as well as feminist and social justice poetic traditions, and frequently incorporates indigenous myths, symbols, and values into her writing. Her poetry inhabits landscapes—the Southwest, Southeast, but also Alaska and Hawaii—and centers around the...

Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate

April 22, 2020
Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate in conversation with Beth Piatote Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

Please inquire for an educational copy of the full recording.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Interdisciplinary Artist
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a grad­uate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art and went to Emily Carr University of Art and Design for...

Raquel Gutiérrez

Critic, Essayist, Poet, Performer, and Educator
Raquel Gutiérrez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Public Art/Housing Publics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2014.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and...

Amanda Gunn

Poet, former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and PhD Candidate in English at Harvard
Amanda Gunn gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Narrative Magazine. Her debut collection, Things I Didn’t...

Mark Greif

Author, Cultural Critic, Co-Founder of n+1, and Professor of English at Stanford
Mark Greif gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2017.

Mark Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he co-founded. His books include the essay collection Against Everything, and a study of mid-20th century American literature and thought, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming...