yale younger poets prize winner

Jack Gilbert reads primarily from The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992 (1995) and Refusing Heaven (2005).

Richard Siken reads poems from Crush (2005). This reading was originally given with Camille T. Dungy and Heriberto Yépez for the Next Word in Poetry Series.

John Ashbery reads poems that would later be collected in Hotel Lautréamont (1992), as well as an excerpt from Flow Chart (1991).

Jay Hopler reads poems from Still Life (2022), written during his time living with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Hopler was unable to travel to Tucson but appeared for an in-person audience via Zoom. This reading was originally given with Kimberly Johnson.