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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. The Ink Dark Moon. Edited and translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988, pp. 3, 35, 38.

The second poem is read from the 1990 Vintage paperback edition and does not appear in the 1988 edition.

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Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. The Ink Dark Moon. Edited and translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988, pp. 41-43, 54, 63, 116.

Reading

Quincy Troupe reads poems appearing in Avalanche (1996) and Choruses (1999).

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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.

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Victoria Chang reads from her published works Obit (2020), Dear Memory (2021), and The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She also shares new, uncollected poems. Chang's poems touch upon grief from the death of her parents, as well as found material from family archives. She also reads work structured in a Japanese syllabic form called waka.

Reading

Jane Hirshfield reads from her ninth collection of poems, Ledger (2020), which meditates on the cascading effects of climate change and the griefs of contemporary human life. In recognition of National Poetry Month, she opens with "The Poet" from The Lives of the Heart (1997) and selections from The Ink Dark Moon (1988), her translations of Classical Period Japanese poets Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. She closes with uncollected new work.

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