The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Maya Marshall and Student Readers
Oct 28th 2025
Events @ Labyrinth Books
Tues 10/28 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Princeton’s Creative Writing faculty for 20 years, showcases seniors in Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Join us for a reading by Maya Marshall and Creative Writing seniors.
Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor. Winner of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love and the chapbook Secondhand. Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Sewanee's Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Emory University, among others. Her poems and essays have been published in or are forthcoming in numerous collections and publications including Prose for the People, American Poetry Review, the Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, Poets.Org, Split This Rock, and Best New Poets. Marshall serves as an editor-at-large for Haymarket Books and as a program consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship, a literary fellowship for writers impacted by carceral systems. She is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University.
This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.