Award-winning poet and 2024 Princeton Holmes Poetry Prize winner Maya Marshall reads from her work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Marshall’s books will be available to purchase and have signed.
This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.
Featured Student Readers
- Amy Liu
- Roya Reese
- George Tidmore
- Emma Tsoglin
- Avery Danae Williams
- Destine Harrison-Williams
About Maya Marshall
Maya Marshall. Photo credit: Ashley Kaushinger
Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, and editor. A recipient of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, she is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love and the chapbook Secondhand. Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision, and has been awarded grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Sewanee’s Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and Emory University. Her poems and essays have been published in numerous publications, including Prose for the People (Penguin Random House, 2025), American Poetry Review, the Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner. Marshall serves as Poetry Director for Haymarket Books and as a program consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship, a literary fellowship for system-impacted writers. She is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University.
Admission & Details
The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets required.
Directions
Get directions to Labyrinth Bookstore, located at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton.
Accessibility
Labyrinth Books is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
