Faculty Presentation: Keetje Kuipers, Porsha Olayiwola, and Ruby T
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writers Keetje Kuipers and Porsha Olayiwola, and artist Ruby T.
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About Our Speakers
Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine, and Poetry, and have been honored by publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Kuiper has been a Stegner Fellow, NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. Previously a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Kuiper is currently Editor of Poetry Northwest. She lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she co-directs the Headwaters Reading Series for Health & Well-Being.
Porsha Olayiwola is an individual world poetry slam champion and the author of the collection i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is a past Poet Laureate for the City of Boston. She is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Olayiwola is the Assistant Professor of Poetry at Emerson College. Her work can be found in or forthcoming with Triquarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, Split This Rock, The NBA, The Academy of American Poets, Netflix, The Rumpus, Wilderness Press, The Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.
Ruby T is an artist, educator, and organizer. Her work is an experiment in translating fantasy to reality, and she is fueled by anger, desire, and magic. Rooted in drawing, her practice has offshoots in painting, performance, comics, fibers, and video. She has exhibited and performed at Farm Projects in Wellfleet, MA; Western Exhibitions, Roots & Culture, and Iceberg Projects in Chicago; Hales Gallery in New York; and Bass & Reiner in San Francisco. Her comics and illustrations have been published by Half Letter Press, and are in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She lives and works on Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Osage land, also known as Louisville, KY.
