Programs & Residencies

Listed below are the series and programs of the Stadler Center for Poetry. Please click on the program name for more information and application instructions, if relevant. Please note that the Poet-in-Residence program, the Sojka Visiting Poet Series, the Stadler Emerging Writer program, and the Stadler Center Writers Series, are by invitation only; we do not accept applications for these programs, nor can we respond to queries.

  • Undergraduate Literary Prizes

    Each year The Stadler Center for Poetry, West Branch magazine, and The Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Fund award Bucknell undergraduates for extraordinary poetry and prose.  Spring semester 2010 marks the seventh anniversary of these literary prizes. 

  • Annual Student Poetry Reading
    The Annual Student Poetry Reading, held in April every year, features the winners of the Stadler Center/West Branch Literary Prizes as well as the winners of the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize.
  • Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets
    The Seminar for Younger Poets, the "trademark" program of the Stadler Center, provides an extended opportunity for undergraduate poets from universities across the country to write and to be guided by established poets. Based on the model of professional artists’ colonies, the Seminar is held for three weeks each June.
  • Stadler Fellowship
    Initiated in 1998, the Stadler Fellowship offers a recent MFA, MA, or PhD graduate in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing along with time to complete a first manuscript of poems.
  • Stadler Emerging Writer Fellowship

    Initiated in 2007 and modeled on the Stadler Fellowship, the Stadler Emerging Writer program offers poets who have recently completed their graduate work the chance to contribute to a thriving poetry center while providing time for the completion of a first or second book of poems.

  • Roth Residence in Creative Writing
    Named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bucknell graduate and established in the fall of 1993, the Roth Residence offers an emerging writer four months of unfettered writing time during Bucknell's fall semester, without formal academic obligations.
  • Poet-in-Residence
    Since its initiation in 1981, the Poet-in-Residence program has brought a writer of national or international renown to spend a semester at Bucknell University each spring semester. The program is intended to honor the achievements of an accomplished poet, providing him or her with the opportunity to work with limited academic obligations.
  • Sojka Visiting Poet Series
    The Sojka Series brings a distinguished poet to Bucknell for a two-day visit each fall. In addition to presenting a reading, the Sojka poet meets in an informal venue with students and other members of the Bucknell community.