Event details
Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers Series
Featured Reader: Gregory Djanikian
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time: 12:30pm EDT
Location: Stockton University Board of Trustees Room: 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205 — BOT Room OR Online via Zoom.
Murphy Writing of Stockton University’s Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers Series is a free reading series. All are welcome! Donations are encouraged.
About the Featured Reader
Born in Alexandria, Egypt of Armenian parentage, Gregory Djanikian came to the United States when he was 8 years old and spent his boyhood in Williamsport, PA. He is a graduate of the Syracuse University writing program and, for many years, was the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania which he attended as an undergraduate. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, Years Later, So I Will Till the Ground, Dear Gravity and, most recently, Sojourners of the In-Between. He has been awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, two prizes from Poetry magazine (the Eunice Tietjens Prize, and Friends of Literature Prize), the Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center at Columbia University and multiple residencies at Yaddo. His work touches on childhood, immigration, history, Armenian Studies, life-long learning and quality of life for seniors (his relatives).
About the Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers series
Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing Stephen Dunn, the series is sponsored by: Murphy Writing of Stockton University; the William T. Daly School of General Studies; The Literature program in the School of Arts & Humanities; and Stockton Board of Trustee member Madeleine Deininger.
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