Past Events
Join us for the 2023-2024 Third Thursday Poetry Series and other literary events!
All programs begin at 6:30 PM at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill (101 S. Debardeleben Street, Auburn) unless otherwise indicated. Reception and book sales are available at 6 PM. For more information, visit aub.ie/third thursday. Sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. |
Spring Sessions 2024
Thursday, March 21, 6:30 p.m. CST at Pebble Hill in Auburn, AL
Join us for a night of fiction and poetry readings by Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry for Digest and Laura Spence-Ash, author of acclaimed novel, Beyond That, the Sea.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for a light reception. Part of the Third Thursday Poetry Series.
Join us for a night of fiction and poetry readings by Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry for Digest and Laura Spence-Ash, author of acclaimed novel, Beyond That, the Sea.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for a light reception. Part of the Third Thursday Poetry Series.
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Join us for the 2022-2023 Third Thursday Poetry Series and other literary events!
All programs begin at 6:30 PM at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill (101 S. Debardeleben Street, Auburn) unless otherwise indicated. Reception and book sales are available at 6 PM.
For more information, visit aub.ie/third thursday.
Sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Spring Sessions 2023
Thursday, March 16, 6:30 p.m. CST at Pebble Hill in Auburn, AL
Join us for a night of fiction and poetry readings by fiction writer Jason Mott, author of National Book Award-winning novel Hell of a Book and poet Gabrielle Bates, author of acclaimed poetry collection Judas Goat.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for a light reception. Part of the Third Thursday Poetry Series.
Join us for a night of fiction and poetry readings by fiction writer Jason Mott, author of National Book Award-winning novel Hell of a Book and poet Gabrielle Bates, author of acclaimed poetry collection Judas Goat.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for a light reception. Part of the Third Thursday Poetry Series.
Fiction Reading
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Rachel Yoder will be reading from her novel "Nightbitch" at Well Red on Tuesday, January 31st at 6:30 pm. More info can be found on their website.
In collaboration with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, SHR invited poets to respond to the photography of RaMell Ross, a visual artist whose objects explore the Black Experience, particularly in relation to the American South, on display at the Jule until December 30th. Read the collection's introduction from Ashley M. Jones, Alabama Poet Laureate, here.
Poetry Reading
As part of our Third Thursday Poetry Series, Chiyuma Elliott read her poetry on November 17th at 6:00 pm.
Fiction Reading
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Claire Lombardo will be reading from her New York Times Bestselling novel "The Most Fun We Ever Had" at Well Red on Thursday, November 3rd at 6:30 pm.
Spring Sessions 2022
March 17, 6:30 p.m. CST at Pebble Hill in Auburn, AL
Join us for a night of in-person fiction and poetry readings by fiction writer Sanjena Sathian and poet and essayist Heather Christle.
Buy Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646888/gold-diggers-by-sanjena-sathian/
Buy Heather Christle's The Crying Book: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781948226448
Virtual Spring Sessions 2021
Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Reading 2020An evening celebrating our annual poetry prize honoring Jake Adam York. This year's winner, Matt Donovan, read alongside judge Paisley Rekdal in a virtual event co-sponsored by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. |
Virtual Spring Sessions 2020
Margaret Renkl Reading
AWP 2019 Offsite Reading
MARCH 28
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Spring Sessions 2019
Spring Sessions 2018
2017 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Reading
OCTOBER 19, 2017
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FEBRUARY 25
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Garrard Conley Reading
Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Reading 2016
Editors Reading
JANUARY 30
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Auburn Writers Conference 2015
Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Reading 2015
JANUARY 31
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Auburn Writers Conference 2014OCTOBER 17-18
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OCTOBER 16, 2014
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FEBRUARY 15
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Discovering SHR 2013FEBRUARY 23
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Discovering SHR 2012FEBRUARY 11
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