Events

Please join us for readings from fiction MFA alums Karissa Chen MFA ’12  and Denne Michele Norris MFA ’12, who will each read from their recently published debut novels, followed by a conversation with MFA faculty member Carolyn Ferrell. Audience Q&A and book sales and signings to follow.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here for the Zoom livestream.

This craft talk will focus on strategies for collaborating with words as living beings. How do we make ourselves available to their arrival? How do we treat them when we meet? What do they desire? What do they hate? We'll look to possible clues from poets, writers, and critics who knew language before us, as well as theories nabbed from neuroscience and predictive coding. We will not actually answer the question posed in the talk's title, which is borrowed from the Scottish poet W. S. Graham, but we will marvel at the sensations (and writings) it can produce.

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. She has also published two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf and The Crying Book. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Emory University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. She has also published two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf and The Crying Book. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Emory University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Daniel Saldaña París is the author of four novels—Among Strange Victims, Ramifications, The Dance and the Fire, and My Father’s Names—as well as a collection of personal essays, Planes Flying Over a Monster. His work has been translated into multiple languages and earned him a place in Bogotá39, a selection of the best Latin American writers under 40. He has received numerous fellowships and residencies, including from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Art Omi, MacDowell, and the Jan Michalski Foundation. He was also awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award in the UK and was a finalist for the Herralde Prize in 2021. In 2022, he was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and he is currently a Fellow at the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here. 

Renowned pianist Mateusz Borowiak makes his second appearance at Sarah Lawrence College. Borowiak will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Louis Pelosi, and Frédéric Chopin. 

Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

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Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

REGISTER HERE. 

Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

REGISTER HERE. 

Music Third Voice Students present a dynamic recital showcasing art songs in Italian, French, and German, alongside selections from Musical Theater, Jazz standards, popular favorites, and original student compositions. Come enjoy an evening of music and see what our voice students have been working on this semester!

In the classic lyric moment, seeing + contemplation=insight, and perhaps even some form of truth. In difficult times, however, this formulation can be elusive, and call into question the role of poetry itself. When poetry and poem-making itself can’t reassure or ground us, how do we sustain our calling to write? How do we keep faith? 

Kerri Webster is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Lapis (Wesleyan, 2022). The recipient of a 2024 Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and a Whiting Award, she recently served as Writer in Residence for the State of Idaho.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here for the Zoom livestream. 

Kerri Webster is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Lapis (Wesleyan, 2022). The recipient of a 2024 Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and a Whiting Award, she recently served as Writer in Residence for the State of Idaho.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

The Wrexham Road Reading Series brings together writers from within and beyond the Sarah Lawrence College community. We're looking forward to hosting authors Elaine Sexton MFA '00 and Jocelyn Jane Cox MFA '99. Join us in celebrating both of their newest publications! REGISTER HERE. 

Congratulations to our winter graduates! 

Graduating students will receive four guest passes for this celebration. We look forward to formally acknowledging and celebrating our winter graduates’ accomplishments as part of spring commencement in May. Information on how to participate in Commencement 2026 will be shared with graduates after the new year.

Please email events@sarahlawrence.edu with any questions.