Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers Series: Iain Haley Pollock

Galloway, N.J. – The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers Series will return for the fall of 2025 with poet Iain Haley Pollock starting at 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, in Stockton University’s Multicultural Center. 

📖 About the Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers Series

Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing, 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 Board of Trustee member Madeleine Deininger, '80. 

Pollock will read from his latest book, “All the Possible Bodies” (Alice James, 2025), and answer audience questions.

Community members and Stockton students, alumni, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend. 

About Iain Haley Pollock

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, “Spit Back a Boy” (2011), “Ghost, Like a Place,” and the forthcoming “All the Possible Bodies.”  He has received several honors for his work, including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bim Ramke Prize for Poetry and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. 

Outside of publishing poems, Pollock has performed his work widely, from the Dodge Poetry Festival to libraries and art centers; he curated the Rye Poetry Path, a public poetry installation in Rye, NY; he serves on the editorial board at Slapering Hol Press and on the board of Tiger Bark Press; and he edits the literary journal Inkwell. Pollock directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY, and lives in the Lower Hudson Valley.