Facilities and Resources

Facilities

The Stadler Center for Poetry contains the Mildred Martin Poetry Library

Newly-renovated classrooms in Vaughan Literature Building have full computer and video instructional capabilities.

Bertrand Library's Special Collections include a wide and distinguished selection of rare manuscripts and books, with special strength in Irish literature.

Resources

Recent visiting writers have included Marilyn Chin, Michael Waters, Liliana Ursu, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl and John Haines.

Professor Glynis Carr is editor of The Online Archive of 19th-Century U.S. Women's Writings.

Special Features

Students are encouraged to join faculty in attending lectures of nationally-known speakers on literature and literary theory who come to campus to lecture and visit classes.

The English Department offers courses in creative writing taught by widely published authors of fiction and poetry.

The Poet-in-Residence program, the Stadler Center for Poetry and Bucknell's national literary magazine West Branch bring well known creative writers to campus.

The Poet-in-Residence program offers a distinguished poet the opportunity to carry on his or her creative work, teach a poetry writing workshop, and meet with students individually.

The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets allows ten promising undergraduate poets from across the country, as well as three advanced Bucknell students, to study as fellows in summer program held for four weeks in June.

The Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing provides a young writer of some record of accomplishment opportunity to engage in work over two months coinciding with fall semester. In alternate years residence awarded to writer of fiction and poet. Writer gives public reading of work and is available to students to talk informally.

Sandra and Gary Sojka Visiting Poet Series brings a renowned poet to campus for a brief residency. The poet visits a class, gives an informal talk on poetics, and does a reading.