Denison’s Beck Series welcomes poets Kathy Fagan, Michael Rosen and Maggie Smith as part of the Ohio Poetry Series. Fagan’s latest collection is “Sycamore.” She is also the author of the National Poetry Series selection “The Raft,” the Vassar Miller Prize winner “MOVING & ST RAGE,” “The Charm,” and “Lip.” Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Slate, FIELD, Narrative, The New Republic, The Nation, and Poetry. Fagan was named Ohio Poet of the Year for 2017, and is...

Boyer, GLCA Fiction Prize Winner, has received writing grants and fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He has taught at the University of New Hampshire and Northeastern University, and has taught the Journal Writing Seminar at Montserrat’s summer program in Viterbo, Italy, since 1998. His chapbook of poetry, “The Mockingbird Puzzle,” is published by Finishing Line Press. “History’s Child,” his first novel, tells the coming-of-age story of...

Denison’s Beck Series welcomes GLCA poetry prize winner Nate Marshall, author of “Wild Hundreds” and an editor of “The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.” “Wild Hundreds” has been honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award. His last rap album, “Grown,” came out in 2015 with his group Daily Lyrical Product. Marshall is a member of The Dark Noise...

Denison’s Beck Series welcomes authors Daniel and Peter Grandbois for a poetry and fiction reading. Daniel Grandbois is the author of four books including the prose poetry/flash fiction collection, “Unlucky Lucky Days,” the art novel, “The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir,” and the prose poetry collection, “Unlucky Lucky Tales,” as well as his most recent unclassifiable collection, “A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy,” from the Pitt Poetry Series. He also has been instrumental in...

Denison’s Beck Series welcomes poet, translator and scholar Phil Metres. He has written and translated a number of books and chapbooks, including “Pictures at an Exhibition,” “Sand Opera,” “I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky,” Concordance of Leaves, abu ghraib arias,” “Ode to Oil,” and “To See the Earth.” Metres has won grants from NEA for both poetry and translation and in 2015 was awarded a grant from the Lannan Foundation. He teaches poetry and literature at John...

Genoways is a contributing writer at Mother Jones, The New Republic, and OnEarth. He is the author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of our Food” as well as two books of poems and the nonfiction book “Walt Whitman and the Civil War,” named a Best Academic Title of 2010 by the American Library Association. He is currently working on his next book, “Tequila Wars: The Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico.” His essays and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek,...

The Beck Series welcomes Margot Singer, associate professor of English at Denison University. Singer is the author of the novel “Underground Fugue.” She won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and an Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award for her story collection, “The Pale of Settlement.” Her work has been featured on NPR and in the Kenyon Review, the Gettysburg Review, Agni, and Conjunctions.

Denison’s Beck Series welcomes poet Solmaz Sharif. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Sharif’s first poetry collection “Look” was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Witness, and others and has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, scholarships the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work...

The Beck Series welcomes poet and memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts. His memoir, “A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison,” was awarded the 2010 NAACP Image Award for non-fiction. His books of poetry are “Shahid Reads His Own Palm,” and “Bastards of the Reagan Era.” Betts is currently in his last year at Yale Law School. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and master’s degree in fine arts from Warren Wilson College’s M.F.A....

The Beck Series welcomes essayist and fiction author Brian Doyle.

The Beck Series welcomes Ismet Prcic, the 2013 GLCA prize-winning author for fiction. In 1977, Ismet Prcic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and immigrated to America in 1996. Winner of the 2013 GLCA New Writers Award for fiction, Shards (Grove/Atlantic, 2012) is Prcic’s first novel. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was the recipient of a 2010 NEA Award for fiction. He also is a 2011 Sundance Screen writing Lab fellow.

Rescheduled from Feb. 5: The Beck Series welcomes Maggie Glover '05 and Page Starzinger. Glover ‘05 is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BA in English Literature (Creative Writing) from Denison University and an MFA in poetry from West Virginia University, where she received the Russ MacDonald Graduate Award for Poetry in 2007. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Glover’s poetry has appeared in Verse Daily, Ninth Letter, Smartish Pace, The Journal, 32 Poems and other literary...

The Beck Series presents a talk with authors Maggie Glover '05 and Page Hill Starzinger.