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David Dominguez reads from Work Done Right (2003). This reading was originally given with with Brenda Shaughnessy and Gary Copeland Lilley.

Monica Youn reads poems from Ignatz (2010).

Dolores Kendrick reads poems from Now is the Thing to Praise (1984), The Women of Plums (1989), and Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner (2001), as well as new and uncollected work.

In this reading, originally given with Jim Simmerman, Karen Brennan reads poetry and prose from The Real Enough World (2005) and The Garden in Which I Walk (2004), as well as several unpublished poems.

In this reading, originally given with Karen Brennan, Jim Simmerman reads primarily from American Children (2005).

Semezdin Mehmedinović reads poems from Sarajevo Blues (1998) and Nine Alexandrias (2003).

Michel Deguy reads poems from Given Giving (1984) and Recumbents (2005) in the original French, with translations read by Reginald McGinnis.

Regie Gibson and Reginald Gibbons read together in a spontaneous poetic conversation. Both read widely from their work; this performance includes both published and unpublished poems.

In this lecture on Homer titled "We Should Shudder," Michael Schmidt discusses the distance of early Greek sensibility from our own and the power of impersonal writing in Homer's poems, reflecting upon what modern poets can learn from this approach. He also incorporates readings of poems by W.H. Auden and Edwin Muir.

In this reading and lecture, originally given with Elizabeth Bernays, poet and bookmaker Charles Alexander discusses his work with Chax Press.

In this reading and presentation, originally given with Charles Alexander, writer and biologist Elizabeth Bernays reads from her large body of literary works and discusses her entomological research.

Matt Hart reads primarily from Revelated (2005), Who's Who Vivid (2005), and Wolf Face (2010). This reading was originally given with Dean Young.

Dean Young reads from Embryoyo (2007) and Primitive Mentor (2008). This reading was originally given with Matt Hart.

In this reading, originally given with Alison Hawthorne Deming, Jane Miller reads poems from the collection A Palace of Pearls (2005).

In this reading, originally given with Jane Miller, Alison Hawthorne Deming reads primarily from her collection Genius Loci (2005).

Jane Miller delivers a lecture on the poetry of Federico García Lorca.

Alan Shapiro reads poems from The Dead Alive and Busy (2000), Song and Dance (2002), Tantalus in Love (2005) and Old War (2008).

Nina Marie Martinez reads from ¡Caramba!: a Tale Told in Turns of the Card (2004).

Drum Hadley reads poems from Voice of the Borderlands (2005). This book release celebration features remarks from panelists Alan Weisman, Voice of the Borderlands illustrator Andrew Rush, and publisher Susan Lowell of Rio Nuevo Publishers.

Claudia Rankine reads from Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004).

Nick Flynn reads widely from his work, interacting with the audience as he reads.

Colloquium with Robert Pinsky.

Garrett Hongo reads from and discusses a cycle of poems written from the point of view of Kubota, a figure based on his maternal grandfather. He also reads poems written by Japanese internees at a detention center in Santa Fe during the 1940s.

Cal Bedient reads poetry appearing in Candy Necklace (1997), The Violence of the Morning (2002), and Days of Unwilling (2008). Poems that went on to appear in the latter collection differ from their published versions.

In this performance, titled "Überseezungen: Transcultural Language Games," Yoko Tawada and translator Bettina Brandt read a series of meditations on language drawn from fragments of Tawada's poetry and prose. This performance is given primarily in English, German, and Japanese.

Frederic Tuten reads a short story, "The Ship at Anchor" (2005).

Nikki Giovanni reads from her extensive body of work and speaks about social justice and the civil rights movement.

Patricia Hampl reads an excerpt from her memoir The Florist's Daughter (2007).

Nathalie Handal reads poems from The Lives of Rain (2005) and Spell (2006) as well as new poems.

George Saunders reads a short story from In Persuasion Nation (2006) and an essay.

Rafael Campo reads poetry and essays on the intersections between literature, medicine, and healing.

Camille T. Dungy reads primarily from What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (2006). This reading was originally given with Richard Siken and Heriberto Yépez as part of the Next Word Series.

Richard Siken reads poems from Crush (2005). This reading was originally given with Camille T. Dungy and Heriberto Yépez for the Next Word in Poetry Series.

Heriberto Yépez reads excerpts from his poem A Brochure on Futureless Science Fiction Poetics. This reading was originally given with Richard Siken and Camille Dungy for the Next Word in Poetry Series.

Poetry Center Summer Resident Cody Walker reads poems from Shuffle and Breakdown (2008), along with new and uncollected works and a poem by Gavin Ewart.

Albert Goldbarth reads poems from To Be Read in 500 Years (2009) and The Kitchen Sink (2007).

Albert Goldbarth lectures on two poems (by William Wordsworth and Stefanie Marlis) at Himmel Park Library.

In this reading, originally given with Aurelie Sheehan, Beth Alvarado shares an excerpt from the short story collection Not a Matter of Love (2006).

In this reading, originally given with Beth Alvarado, Aurelie Sheehan shares excerpts from the novel History Lessons for Girls (2006), as well as a work in progress called One Hundred Histories.

Srikanth Reddy reads from Facts for Visitors (2004) and Voyager (2011). This reading was originally given with Brian Turner and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

Brian Turner reads from Here, Bullet (2005). This reading was originally given with Srikanth Reddy and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson reads from Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (2006), and The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (2009). This reading was originally given with Brian Turner and Srikanth Reddy.

Jimmy Santiago Baca reads poems and prose from his body of work, including A Glass of Water (2009), A Place to Stand (2002), Healing Earthquakes (2001), Martín & Meditations on the South Valley (1987), and C-Train (Dream Boy's Story) and Thirteen Mexicans: Poems (2002).

Carolyn Forché reads from her collection Blue Hour (2003) as well as unpublished and uncollected work. This reading includes a performance of excerpts from her famous long abecedarian, "On Earth."

Deborah Bernhardt performs poems from her book Echolalia (2006). This reading was originally given with Catherine Wing and Sawako Nakayasu as part of the Next Word in Poetry Series.

Catherine Wing reads from her book Enter Invisible (2005), as well as poems which would later be collected in Gin & Bleach (2012). This reading was originally given with Sawako Nakayasu and Deborah Bernhardt as part of the Next Word in Poetry Series.

Sawako Nakayasu reads from So We Have Been Given Time Or (2004) and Nothing Fictional but the Accuracy or Arrangement (She (2006), as well as poems which would later be collected in The Ants (2014). This reading was originally given with Catherine Wing and Deborah Bernhardt for the Next Word in Poetry Series.

Harryette Mullen reads poems from Trimmings (1991) and Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002).

With Spring Ulmer, Christopher McIlroy, and Peggy Shumaker. 

On her third visit to Tucson, Lydia Davis reads primarily from her 2007 book Varieties of Disturbance and discusses the process of putting the book together. She concludes the reading with the performance of new, uncollected stories.