Celebrating Women's History Month

Browse a selection of performances by women who read for the Poetry Center in the first three decades of the Reading Series. 

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"The Matriarch"
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Stone, Ruth. In an Iridescent Time. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959.

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"The Magellanic Clouds"
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Wakoski, Diane. The Magellanic Clouds. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.

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"Woman"
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Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

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"The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why"
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Levertov, Denise. Footprints. New York: New Direction, 1972.

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"Re-forming the Crystal"
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Rich, Adrienne. Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

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"Storytelling"
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Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1981.

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"what the mirror said"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"Chinese Space"
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Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. Empathy. New York: Station Hill Press, 1989.

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"The Wanderer"
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Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.

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"Someone Else's Nightmare"
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from series "Moving Out of the Attic"
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Mairs, Nancy. In All the Rooms of the Yellow House. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1984.
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"The Colonel"
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Forché, Carolyn. The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

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"Topography"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"At the Cabaret Now"
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Graham, Jorie. Region of Unlikeness. New York: Ecco, 1991.

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"The River Again and Again"
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Gregg, Linda. "The River Again and Again." Ironwood 7.2 (1979): 13. Print.

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"Rainy Dawn"
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Harjo, Joy. In Mad Love and War. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
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Ruth Stone
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Diane Wakoski
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Ai
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Leslie Marmon Silko
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Nancy Carrick Holbert
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Lucille Clifton
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Linda Gregg
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Lois Shelton
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Nancy Mairs in 1977
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Carolyn Forché
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Lois Shelton
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Lorna Dee Cervantes
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Ila Abernathy
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Gloria Anzaldúa
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Joy Harjo
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Lois Shelton
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Louise Glück
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Lois Shelton?
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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