💥Black Box is back next Wednesday!💥 Join us next week for readings by students and alumni associated with the Creative Writing Program.

🦃This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for our community members — and their great reading recommendations!🦃 Poetry student Mary recommends “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin.

☄️Join us THIS THURSDAY!☄️ This event is presented in partnership with the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Boston University Arts Initiative, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

🚢Join us Thursday night!🚢 Free and open to the public!

🍄Join us TONIGHT for the inaugural reading of The Bay State Road Reading Series, featuring Meg Tyler and William Logan!🍄

📸The first event of the Bay State Road Reading Series is in the books — a wonderful reading by Meg Tyler and William Logan!📸 Thanks are due to the BU Center for the Humanities, the BU Office for the Arts, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center for their support.

❄️Happy Holidays, MFAs!❄️ Between their book exchange and holiday care packages, our students have a lot of winter cheer to unwrap.

🦉Our last Black Box reading of 2025 was a hoot!🦉 Thank you to Eric Parkison (Poetry ‘16), Matthew Porto (Poetry ‘16), Gracie Barnett (Poetry ‘26), and Lachy Bowden (Fiction ‘26) for reading! We’ll see you all at our next event in 2026!

🎄Here are some snapshots from our holiday party!🎄 Happy Holidays from everyone at BU Creative Writing!

🚨Reminder: applications are due next month!🚨

🚨Our application deadline is right around the corner!🚨

🪴Our administrator is at MacDowell for a couple of weeks, so we’re taking a little break!🪴 We’ll be back to posting on the 22nd — this account won’t be monitored while she’s away.

🧨Join us on Wednesday for a reading by award-winning poet Garth Greenwell!🧨 This event is free and open to the public.

🍄WEDNESDAY!🍄 Free and open to the public — no ticket necessary.

📸We had such a blast having Garth Greenwell as our featured speaker for the spring 2026 Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series!📸

🕵️Friday was imitation workshop day — and baby picture guessing day — for our poetry students!🕵️ Students are provided with anonymous poems written by peers (in which authors may imitate the styles of others in the class) and anonymous baby pictures— then guess who is who!

🎀Come hear some love poems on Wednesday night!🎀 Come celebrate Valentine’s Day a little early with us on February 11th at 7PM in STH625 — Dan Grover (Poetry ‘14), Annaka Saari (Poetry ‘21), Mary Elliot (Poetry ‘26), and Sanjana Thakur (Poetry ‘26) will read.