experimental

Reading

Sheila E. Murphy reads widely from her body of work.

Reading

Anne Waldman discusses and reads from two recent projects, Manatee/Humanity and the Chax Press chapbook Matriot Acts. This reading was given alongside Laynie Browne for the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books.

Reading

C. D. Wright reads from One With Others (2010).

Reading

Jen Hofer reads widely from her early work. This reading was originally given with Summi Kaipa.

Reading

Leslie Scalapino reads selections from her work, collected in The Front Matter, Dead Souls (1996), New Time (1999), and Zither & Autobiography (2003).

Reading

Hilito is a short film that captures a performance by Cecilia Vicuña in the Sonoran Desert. It was filmed over the span of a week across various locations in Tucson. Vicuña created this film for the Poetry Off the Page Symposium.

Playlist

Curated for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and spanning the years 1990-2023, this selection of work seeks to capture the aesthetic and thematic range of Asian American and Pacific Islander poets. 

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