reality

John Ashbery reads widely from his body of work, including poems from both Shadow Train and A Wave, which were published in the four years that followed this reading.

Robert Hemenway reads an excerpt from At the Border (1984) and prefaces his reading with a description of common themes in his writing.

Richard Siken reads poems from his collection War of the Foxes (2015). This reading was orginally given with Annie Guthrie.