The Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring these MFA poets from Oregon State University:
Elyssa Cook, Anmol Priya Desai, Cheyenne Hollowell, Monique Lanier, Sam Olson, and Tor 
Strand. You can find out more about the MFA students of Oregon State University.
After the featured readers, there will be an open mic period as well.
The Arts Center is conveniently located in downtown Corvallis next to Central Park: 700 SW Madison Ave, Corvallis, OR 97333.
Oregon State University's high residency MFA program in Corvallis has a long tradition of excellence in producing and teaching creative writing, going all the way back to the 1950s when the future distinguished novelist William Kittredge was a student here, and Bernard Malamud won a National Book Award while teaching in the English Department. This is a distinguished past, but the present is even more remarkable. Creative Writing has never been more vital or successful at OSU than it is right now, with a nationally competitive pool of applicants in fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, full funding for all their students through GTA positions, full tuition waivers, and a vibrant Visiting Writers Series.