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Spring 2026 Dr. Carl Calendar Visiting Writers Series
All readings are free and open to the public; refreshments will be offered. No reservations/tickets are needed.
Omar Holmon
Wednesday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.
Student Life Center, Twin Lights
Omar Holmon will read from and discuss his work.
Omar Holmon is a Hugo Award-winning author, culture critic, performer, internet archaeologist, and known for co-founding the popular website Black Nerd Problems which resulted in the collection, Black Nerd Problems: Essays. He is also author of the poetry collection Were All Someone Else Yesterday. He has been featured in…
New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Simon & Schuster, PIX 11 Morning News, NPR (WNYC Radio), LifeHacker, The Root, Huffpost, Tedx Talks
DeeSoul Carson and Jeanann Verlee
Tuesday, March 31, 7:00 p.m.
Student Life Center, Twin Lights I
Two award-winning poets will read and discuss their work.
DeeSoul Carson
DeeSoul Carson is a poet, educator, and host of the O,Word? podcast. A Stanford alum, his work is featured or forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, & elsewhere.
For his work, DeeSoul has received a National Endowment for the Arts and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.
His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027.
Jeanann Verlee
Jeanann Verlee is the author of three books: prey, Said the Manic to the Muse, and award-winning Racing Hummingbirds. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, the Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize, among other honors.
Her poems and essays are featured in numerous journals, including Academy of American Poets, Adroit, BuzzFeed, and Muzzle.
She has performed for hundreds of programs, universities, and conferences, including PBS’s Brief But Spectacular, PEN America, Lincoln Center, Split This Rock, The Juilliard School, Princeton, Yale, and more.
She collects tattoos, kisses Rottweilers, and believes in you.
Lior Torenberg
Monday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.
Student Life Center, Navesink
Novelist Lior Torenberg will read from and discuss her debut novel.
About “Just Watch Me”: Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption.”
Featured by The New Yorker, Cosmo, Vogue, TIME, and Dazed
For more information on the Dr. Carl Calendar Visiting Writers Series, please contact Professor Suzanne Parker, Director of the Creative Writing Program, at sparker@brookdalecc.edu.
Readings are co-sponsored by Student Life & Activities, The Wellness Center and The Center for Transformative Learning.
