Please join us for an exciting night of poetry with the 2026-2027 Diann Blakely Visiting Poet Anne Boyer with Magdalena Zurawski! Free and open to the public.

Anne Boyer is a poet, artist, and essayist. Her works include The Undying, Garments Against Women, and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. Her honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a Windham-Cambell prize, the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Judith Wilson Fellowship in Poetry at Cambridge, the CLMP Firecracker award in poetry, and a Whiting award. Originally from central Kansas, Boyer now lives in coastal Scotland and teaches at the University of St. Andrews.

Magdalena Zurawski is the author of the novel The Bruise, which won the Ronald Sukenick Award from FC2 in 2008 and a LAMBDA literary award in 2009, and the collection of poems Companion Animal, which was published by Litmus Press in 2015 and won a Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom (Wave Books 2019) is her most recent poetry collection. The Operating System also released Zurawski’s poem/essay Don’t Be Scared as a chapbook in Summer 2019. Her essay Being Human is an Occult Practice appeared from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020.

Join Gallery Director Rachel Waldrop for a tour of Athenaeum exhibitions Erin Johnson: The Measure Is Something Else and Megan Ledbetter: The Field (2022-2026).

The Georgia Review and the Athenaeum present a reading with Julia Elliott and Joshua Garcia at the Athenaeum. The reading will be followed by a book sale and signing. Free and open to the public. The event is supported by the UGA English Department, the UGA Special Collections Library, and the UGA Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Julia Elliott is the author of the story collection Hellions, winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and a Southern Book Prize finalist. Her collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was chosen by Kirkus, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and Electric Literature as one of the Best Books of 2014. She also published the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, Reactor, Granta, and The New York Times. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and two Pushcart Prizes, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. She teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia with her husband, daughter, and six hens.

Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project, and support from the Hawthornden Foundation. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. 

An homage to John Cage’s landmark composition of the same name, the live 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights UGA student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community.

The competition is open to any graduate student or undergraduate student working on an advanced project who is conducting research related to the literary, visual, or performing arts or artists. The 4’33” Contest consists of an oral research presentation no longer than four minutes and 33 seconds in length. The 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest is part of UGA’s annual Spotlight on the Arts festival.

To learn more and apply to participate, visit arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/433-contest/

Join us in celebrating the opening of Christy Bush: Continuum. Free and open to the public.

Join Gallery Director Rachel Waldrop for a tour of Athenaeum exhibitions Erin Johnson: The Measure Is Something Else and Christy Bush: Continuum.

In conjunction with Erin Johnson: The Measure Is Something Else and to further disseminate Johnson’s work, the Athenaeum will host a public symposium to close the exhibition, featuring a Visiting Artist keynote lecture with the artist and debut of Johnson’s new work. Symposium details TBA

Over the course of the exhibition, Johnson will develop a new artwork and associated programming in collaboration with multiple University of Georgia units filmed on Georgia’s Ossabaw Island with the Ossabaw Island Artist in Residence Program. This new commission will further position the exhibition as a pedagogical site—an architecture in itself—through which power, knowledge, and space are made visible and contestable.