Smith College English Department

05/14/2026

Professor Ruth Ozeki has a new book coming out on June 2!

A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is...

05/03/2026

Professor Floyd Cheung edited two of the books on Penguin’s list of 16 Asian American classics https://www.instagram.com/p/DX4QIgGlkst/?igsh=NDZ6NWhqYWRva2E=

01/30/2026

Our season kicks off on 2/10 with Brandon Som, and we have so much fabulous poetry for you this spring:

2/10 Brandon Som
2/24 Jenny Browne
3/24 Claire Wahmanholm
4/7 Yalie Saweda Kamara and the HS Prizewinners
4/21 PYX Capstone Poets (students read their chapbook projects!)
4/28 Danez Smith (in John M Greene Hall)

Join us if you can! Always free, always open. 💜

12/11/2025

11/11/2025

Tonight! 🌗 Patricia Smith will be joining us for a reading at 7 pm on November 11, and students from Melissa Parrish's ENG 303 will be in conversation with Smith following the reading. In person at Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall and streaming on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/live/-i7yI6oT9vA?si=rRxp5szCi-vyf

10/22/2025

Travels in Property: Eula Biss Reads from Work in Progress

10/15/2025

SYMPOSIUM MODERATED BY MICHAEL THURSTON, HELEN MEANS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, SMITH COLLEGE

10/15/2025

KEEPING HOUSE: Merle Woo's Archives, Third World Le***an Feminism, and Infrastructures of Care

10/15/2025

Upcoming events:

10/08/2025

Concerned about book banning? Us too!

On October 8, join Smith’s new Dean of Libraries Nancy Kirkpatrick, Senior Policy Fellow of The EveryLibrary Institute Kathleen McEvoy, and Julia Garnett ’28 in the Neilson Browsing Room to discuss an important recent legal case, Little vs. Llano County.

Stay to write a personal postcard to a legislator about the freedom to read, featuring banned book images from Smith College Special Collections!

This event is in partnership with the Massachusetts Center for the Book. It's free and open to the public, and a virtual option is available. Learn more: https://libraries.smith.edu/news/banned-books-week-call-action-october-8