Name: The C. K. Williams Reading Series—Ellen Bass and Student Readers
Start: 2025-10-21T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Labyrinth Books Princeton

$The C. K. Williams Reading Series\u2014Ellen Bass and Student Readers$

The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Princeton’s Creative Writing faculty for 20 years, showcases seniors in Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Join us for a reading by Ellen Bass and Creative Writing seniors.
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited the major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor Emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.