April 2025
Hannah Brooks-Motl and David Seung Reading
Wednesday, Apr. 9 | 6pm | FMH 302
A reading by poets Hannah Brooks-Motl and David Seung.
Hannah Brooks-Motl was born and raised in Wisconsin. She is author of the poetry collections The New Years (2014), M (2015), Earth (2019), and Ultraviolet of the Genuine (2025), as well as chapbooks from the Song Cave, arrow as aarow, and The Year. She lives in western Massachusetts.
David Seung is a Korean-American standup comedian and writer advocating for his hometown of downtown Portland, Oregon through his walking tour company, Side Dish Mafia Food Tours. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University, where he now teaches.
Visiting Writer Series with Erica Berry
Monday, Apr. 14 | 2pm | SMSU Vanport Room
Reading with author Erica Berry, joined by Prof. Justin Hocking.
Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays, which are often about the intersection of feelings and the environment, appear in The New York Times, The Guardian, Outside, Orion, The Yale Review, and other publications. She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron/Macmillan, 2023), which won the Oregon Book Award, and Bodies In Heat: Love in a Changing Climate, forthcoming from Flatiron Books. Winner of a 2025 Oregon Career Fellowship from Literary Arts, she is a contributing editor at Orion magazine and a Fall 2025 Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.
How to Submit Discussion for MFA Students
Wednesday, Apr. 16 | 4pm | FMH 302
Discussion with PSU faculty on submitting your writing to literary magazines and small presses. For current MFA students only. Attendees will also receive a free copy of the newly released book How to Submit by Dennis James Sweeney.
May 2025
MFA Graduation Ceremony
Saturday, May 31 | 6:30pm | Oregon Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Avenue
Featuring readings from graduating MFA students. Friends and families welcome!