the self

Beckian Fritz Goldberg reads primarily from then-new poems that would largely appear in her third book, Never Be the Horse (1999). She intersperses poems from her second book, In the Badlands of Desire (1993). Time and the changing self recur as themes throughout the reading.

Annie Guthrie reads poems from her collection the good dark (2015) and from a manuscript titled let x (be rogue). This reading was originally given with Richard Siken.

Srikanth Reddy delivers a talk on likeness, unlikeness, and portraiture in the works of Emily Dickinson, Pablo Picasso, and Gertrude Stein. 

In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry.