Donna Stonecipher is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Ruins of Nostalgia, listed as a best book of 2023 by NPR, and Transaction Histories, cited by The New York Times as one of the 10 best poetry books of 2018. She has also published one book of criticism, Prose Poetry and the City (2018). She is translating Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker’s trilogy études, cahier, and fleurs, for which she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Forthcoming in 2027 is a narrated nonfiction book on Berlin and architectural ornament entitled The Secret Life and Death of Ornament in Berlin (MIT Press), for which she received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. 

The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing, with the assistance of the Department of English. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.