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Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.

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Graham, Jorie. Region of Unlikeness. New York: Ecco, 1991.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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Forché, Carolyn. "Kalaloch." Gathering the Tribes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

"San Onofre, California." The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

"The Visitor." The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

"Ourselves or Nothing." The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

"Translator's Note." The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos. Translated by Carolyn Forché and William T. Kulik. New York: Ecco, 1991.

"The Garden Shukkei-en." The Angel of History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

"The Recording Angel." The Angel of History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

"Elegy." The Angel of History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

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Dove, Rita. Playlist for the Apocalypse. New York: Norton, 2021. 

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Dove, Rita. Playlist for the Apocalypse. New York: Norton, 2021. 

Reading

Adam Zagajewski reads from Tremor (1985) and Solidarity, Solitude (1990). He also reads early drafts of translations of poems that would go on to be collected in Canvas (1991); most differ from those that appear in the published version of the book (translated by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams).

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C. K. Williams reads poems from With Ignorance (1977), Tar (1983), and Flesh and Blood (1987).

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In a notably measured style, Jorie Graham reads poems that would be published the following year in her fourth book, Region of Unlikeness (1991). She also reads an early draft of a long poem, "Manifest Destiny," which would later be collected in Materialism (1993).

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In this reading, originally given with Joni Wallace, Mary Jo Bang reads poems that would go on to be collected in The Last Two Seconds (2015) as well as a segment from her translation of "Canto III" of Dante's Inferno (2012).

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Dannie Abse reads from Tenants of the House: Poems 1951-1956 (1957), Funland and Other Poems (1973), Way Out in the Centre (1981), and New and Collected Poems (2003).

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Maurya Simon reads poems from The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems 1980-2016 (2018). This reading was originally given with Peggy Shumaker as the inaugural reading in the Tom Sanders Memorial Reading Series. 

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