Distinguished Voices in Literature

Distinguished Voices in Literature

Distinguished Voices in Literature, SUNY Cortland's Visiting Writers series, brings poets, authors, and scholars to campus for readings and lectures. All events are free and open to the public.

Fall 2026

Jen DeGregorio

Reading and Q&A with Jen DeGregorio
Author of What to Wear Out

Wednesday, October 28, 2026
5:00pm
Dowd Art Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center 106

Jen DeGregorio is the author of the poetry collection What to Wear Out, a longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Award and a semifinalist for the Eric Hoffer Award’s Medal Provocateur. Jen’s writing has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, Paterson Literary Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Third Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, and many other publications. Her work has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference; Binghamton University (SUNY), where she received a PhD in English; and Hunter College (CUNY), where she received an MFA in creative writing. She currently works as the associate director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, where she also teaches undergraduate creative writing as a lecturer. A former senior editor of Poets & Writers, she began her writing career as a newspaper reporter and holds a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Collin Gifford Brooke

Lecture by Collin Gifford Brooke 
Author of Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media

Wednesday, November 18, 2026
5:00pm
Dowd Art Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center 106

Collin Gifford Brooke is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University. He is the author of Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media (2009) and co-editor (with Laurie Gries) of Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric (2018). His current project focuses on rhetoric, technology, attention, and democracy, and he looks back fondly on the days when we still had an Internet. 

Distinguished Voices in Literature events are supported by the President’s Office, the Haines Fund, the Provost’s Office, the Cortland College Foundation, the Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee, CAS, the Dowd Gallery, the Writing Center, and the English Department.

For questions please contact Heather Bartlett ([email protected])