Feb. 6: Love of language and the outdoors distinguish the poetry of Robert Haas. The Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and U.S. Poet Laureate kicks off the 2014 Creative Writing Program Reading Series at Bryn Mawr College. 7:30 p.m. Free. Goodhart Music Room, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, (610) 526-5210, brynmawr.edu/arts/cwprs. —Melissa Jacobs