The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will welcome poet Keetje Kuipers  as its 2025-26 Walton Visiting Writer in Poetry.

Kuipers will read at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10th, at the Ziegler Room in the Fayetteville Public Library. The event is free and open to the public, and a book signing will follow the reading.

Keetje Kuipers is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and was called “elegant, earthy, [and] pertinent,” by Marilyn Hacker. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her subsequent books, The Keys to the Jail and All Its Charms, include poems honored with publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and over a hundred other publications.