Fall Reading Series

This series contains all of the readings given at the Poetry Center in the fall semester (August-December) of any year.

Readings in this Series

Mary Ruefle - September 26, 2024
Mark Wunderlich - September 12, 2024
Charif Shanahan - December 5, 2023
Marilyn Chin - November 16, 2023
Sawako Nakayasu - November 9, 2023
Manuel Paul López - November 2, 2023
Adam O. Davis - November 2, 2023
Eileen Myles - October 26, 2023
Timothy Donnelly - October 19, 2023
Yanyi - September 28, 2023
Paisley Rekdal - September 21, 2023
Dionne Irving - August 31, 2023
Ander Monson - December 15, 2022
Bojan Louis - December 15, 2022
Manuel Muñoz - December 15, 2022
Mark Doty - December 1, 2022
MFA 50th Anniversary: Alberto Ríos - November 17, 2022
MFA 50th Anniversary: Aisha Sabatini Sloan - November 17, 2022
MFA 50th Anniversary: Cara Blue Adams - November 17, 2022
Sandra Cisneros and Liliana Valenzuela - November 10, 2022
Playlist for the Apocalypse: A Reading with Rita Dove - October 13, 2022
Victoria Chang - October 6, 2022
Aria Aber - September 22, 2022
Shayla Lawz - September 22, 2022
Lorna Dee Cervantes - September 15, 2022
Jericho Brown - December 2, 2021
Carl Marcum - November 4, 2021
Laurie Ann Guerrero - November 4, 2021
Mahogany L. Browne - October 21, 2021
Angels & Devils: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea - October 14, 2021
Li-Young Lee - January 23, 2020
Dean Young - December 5, 2019
Arthur Sze - November 14, 2019
Aimee Bender - November 12, 2019
Matthew Zapruder - November 7, 2019
Sandra Cisneros (Question and Answer Session) - October 24, 2019
Sandra Cisneros - October 24, 2019
Tongo Eisen-Martin - October 17, 2019
T Clutch Fleischmann - October 10, 2019
Andrea Lawlor - October 10, 2019
Angel Nafis - September 26, 2019
Patricia Smith - September 26, 2019
Kim Addonizio - September 12, 2019
Joseph O. Legaspi - September 12, 2019
Javier Zamora - September 12, 2019
sam sax - September 5, 2019
Erika L. Sánchez - September 5, 2019
Maggie Smith - December 6, 2018
Maggie Smith - November 29, 2018
Randall Horton - November 15, 2018
James Allen Hall - November 8, 2018
Carl Phillips - October 25, 2018
Charles Simic - October 4, 2018
Jane Miller - September 20, 2018
Farid Matuk - September 20, 2018
Venita Blackburn - September 13, 2018
Morgan Parker - September 6, 2018
Tommy Pico - September 6, 2018
Sandra Cisneros - December 1, 2017
Rita Dove - December 1, 2017
Joy Harjo - December 1, 2017
Timothy Yu - November 2, 2017
Layli Long Soldier - November 2, 2017
Poetry of Resistance - October 12, 2017
Aimee Nezhukumatathil - October 5, 2017
Aimee Nezhukumatathil - September 28, 2017
Giancarlo Huapaya - September 19, 2017
Joy Williams - September 14, 2017
Jorie Graham - September 7, 2017
Reginald Dwayne Betts - August 31, 2017
Joy Harjo - December 1, 2016
Camille T. Dungy - November 17, 2016
Rita Dove - October 27, 2016
Natasha Stagg - October 20, 2016
Benjamin Rybeck - October 20, 2016
Lawrence Lenhart - October 20, 2016
Aracelis Girmay - October 13, 2016
Brenda Hillman - October 6, 2016
Robert Hass - October 6, 2016
Richard Shelton - October 1, 2016
Claudia Rankine - September 16, 2016
Karen Brennan - September 8, 2016
Julie Iromuanya - September 8, 2016
Solmaz Sharif - September 1, 2016
Danniel Schoonebeek - September 1, 2016
Erik Reece - November 17, 2015
Srikanth Reddy - November 12, 2015
Phillip Lopate - November 5, 2015
Jerome Rothenberg - October 27, 2015
Brenda Hillman - October 22, 2015
Mark Doty - October 1, 2015
Paul Hurh - September 24, 2015
Laynie Browne - September 17, 2015
Annie Guthrie - September 10, 2015
Richard Siken - September 10, 2015
francine j. harris - September 3, 2015
Tarfia Faizullah - September 3, 2015
Robin Robertson - November 13, 2014
Thomas Sayers Ellis - November 6, 2014
Thomas Sayers Ellis - October 30, 2014
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - October 16, 2014
Allen Crawford - October 9, 2014
Alison Hawthorne Deming - October 2, 2014
Susan Briante - October 2, 2014
Craig Santos Perez - September 18, 2014
Yona Harvey - September 18, 2014
Clark Coolidge - November 19, 2013
Clark Coolidge - November 19, 2013
Teré Fowler-Chapman - November 19, 2013
Aurelie Sheehan - November 14, 2013
Farid Matuk - November 14, 2013
Thalia Field - November 7, 2013
Alberto Ríos - November 1, 2013
Jenny Boully - October 24, 2013
Maggie Nelson - October 10, 2013
Lia Purpura - October 3, 2013
C.E. Poverman - September 19, 2013
Matt Méndez - September 19, 2013
Natalie Diaz - September 5, 2013
Eduardo C. Corral - September 5, 2013
Joshua Marie Wilkinson - August 29, 2013
Jane Miller - August 29, 2013
G.C. Waldrep - November 15, 2012
G.C. Waldrep - November 14, 2012
Lydia Millet - November 8, 2012
Shannon Cain - November 8, 2012
Carl Phillips - November 1, 2012
C.D. Wright - September 13, 2012
Niki Herd - September 6, 2012
Kate Bernheimer - August 30, 2012
Cynthia Hogue - August 30, 2012
Christopher Cokinos - December 5, 2011
Beth Alvarado - December 5, 2011
Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas - November 7, 2011
Carl Dennis - November 3, 2011
Philip Schultz - October 20, 2011
Mary Jo Bang - October 6, 2011
Joni Wallace - October 6, 2011
Thomas Sayers Ellis - September 15, 2011
Barbara Cully - September 1, 2011
Manuel Muñoz - September 1, 2011
Joshua Marie Wilkinson - December 3, 2010
Kate Bernheimer - December 3, 2010
Michelle Tea - November 13, 2010
Howard Altmann - November 8, 2010
Billy Collins - November 7, 2010
Gary Snyder - October 7, 2010
Alberto Álvaro Ríos - September 10, 2010
Sherwin Bitsui - September 10, 2010
Ofelia Zepeda - September 10, 2010
Richard Shelton - September 2, 2010
Eleni Sikelianos - December 4, 2009
Rosa Alcalá - November 20, 2009
Alison Hawthorne Deming - November 5, 2009
David Dunn - October 29, 2009
Robert Boswell - October 1, 2009
Alison Hawthorne Deming - September 10, 2009
Mónica de la Torre - November 20, 2008
Bhanu Kapil - November 20, 2008
Ben Lerner - November 20, 2008
Manuel Muñoz - November 13, 2008
Tenney Nathanson - November 13, 2008
Ofelia Zepeda - October 23, 2008
Luci Tapahonso - October 23, 2008
Lee Ann Brown - October 16, 2008
Jean Valentine - September 25, 2008
Marilynne Robinson - September 20, 2008
Marilynne Robinson - September 19, 2008
Lucille Clifton - November 1, 2007
Lydia Davis - October 16, 2007
Alumni Reading - September 27, 2007
Jimmy Santiago Baca - December 8, 2006
Beth Alvarado - October 12, 2006
Aurelie Sheehan - October 12, 2006
Albert Goldbarth - September 8, 2006
Albert Goldbarth - September 7, 2006
Garrett Hongo - November 17, 2005
Robert Pinsky - November 9, 2005
Nick Flynn - November 2, 2005
Drum Hadley - October 7, 2005
Nina Marie Martinez - October 5, 2005
Alan Shapiro - September 21, 2005
Jane Miller - September 8, 2005
Jane Miller - September 7, 2005
Alison Hawthorne Deming - September 7, 2005
Matt Hart - September 1, 2005
Dean Young - September 1, 2005
David Mura - November 17, 2004
David Mura - November 17, 2004
Patricia Smith - November 10, 2004
Rita Dove - October 27, 2004
Tony Hoagland - September 22, 2004
Tony Hoagland - September 21, 2004
Ray Gonzalez - September 1, 2004
Ray Gonzalez - September 1, 2004
Michael Palmer - January 28, 2004
Eavan Boland - November 19, 2003
Steve Orlen - November 4, 2003
Robin Robertson - October 29, 2003
James Thomas Stevens - October 8, 2003
Olena Kalytiak Davis - October 8, 2003
Matthea Harvey - October 8, 2003
Li-Young Lee - September 10, 2003
Carole Maso - November 13, 2002
Forrest Gander - October 30, 2002
Gerald Stern - October 16, 2002
Linda Gregerson - October 2, 2002
Rebecca Seiferle - September 18, 2002
Carl Marcum - November 29, 2001
Rex Lee Jim - November 15, 2001
Rex Lee Jim - November 14, 2001
W. S. Di Piero - October 24, 2001
Loida Maritza Pérez - September 12, 2001
Denise Chávez - September 12, 2001
Jonathan Penner - September 5, 2001
Stella Pope Duarte - April 5, 2001
Robert Hass - November 17, 2000
Leroy V. Quintana - November 1, 2000
DJ Renegade - October 27, 2000
Tracie Morris - October 27, 2000
Alberto Blanco - October 11, 2000
Elizabeth Evans - October 4, 2000
C.D. Wright Colloquium - September 14, 2000
Jane Miller - December 1, 1999
Eleni Sikelianos - December 1, 1999
Luci Tapahonso - November 17, 1999
Maggie Nelson - October 6, 1999
Rigoberto González - September 22, 1999
Gary Soto - September 22, 1999
Nanci Kincaid - September 8, 1999
Lucille Clifton - December 2, 1998
Roland Flint - November 18, 1998
Tomaž Šalamun - October 21, 1998
Geoffrey Becker - October 7, 1998
W.S. Merwin - September 18, 1998
Steve Orlen - December 3, 1997
Jack Gilbert - November 12, 1997
Brenda Hillman - October 30, 1997
Brenda Hillman - October 29, 1997
Claribel Alegría - October 22, 1997
Linda Hogan - October 8, 1997
Leslie Scalapino - September 24, 1997
James Tate - November 20, 1996
David Rivard - November 13, 1996
Marilyn Chin - October 23, 1996
Luis Alberto Urrea - October 9, 1996
Ofelia Zepeda - September 25, 1996
Jane Hirshfield - November 29, 1995
David Lee - November 20, 1995
Jeffrey Eugenides - October 18, 1995
Michael Collier - October 4, 1995
Pattiann Rogers - September 20, 1995
Erkin Vohidov - August 25, 1995
Sherman Alexie - November 16, 1994
Sherman Alexie - November 16, 1994
Elizabeth Evans - November 9, 1994
Gerald Stern - October 23, 1994
Laura Kasischke and David S. Reynolds - October 21, 1994
Medbh McGuckian - October 17, 1994
James Galvin - October 12, 1994
Richard Katrovas - September 21, 1994
Gretel Ehrlich - November 17, 1993
Maxine Chernoff - November 3, 1993
Peter Wild - October 27, 1993
Mark Doty - October 13, 1993
Denis Johnson - September 29, 1993
Juan Felipe Herrera - September 15, 1993
Martín Espada - December 2, 1992
Denise Levertov - November 18, 1992
Judith Barrington - November 11, 1992
Sandra Alcosser - November 4, 1992
Pete Fromm - November 4, 1992
Adélia Prado and Ellen Doré Watson - October 14, 1992
Hayden Carruth - October 5, 1992
Jane Miller - September 23, 1992
David Wojahn - September 16, 1992
Carolyn Forché - December 4, 1991
Cornelius Eady - November 6, 1991
Alan Cheuse - October 30, 1991
Gloria E. Anzaldúa - October 23, 1991
Boyer Rickel - October 2, 1991
Judith Ortiz Cofer - September 25, 1991
Frank Bidart - September 13, 1991
Nanao Sakaki - November 8, 1990
Jorie Graham - November 7, 1990
Robert Houston - October 3, 1990
John Ashbery Colloquium- September 12, 1990
John Ashbery - September 12, 1990
Nina Cassian - September 5, 1990
Erin McGraw - November 15, 1989
Houston Baker - October 29, 1989
David Kirby - October 11, 1989
Jon Anderson - October 4, 1989
C.E. Poverman - October 4, 1989
Nancy Mairs - September 20, 1989
Steve Orlen - September 13, 1989
X.J. Kennedy - November 16, 1988
Beverly Dahlen - November 9, 1988
Olga Broumas - October 26, 1988
Terry McMillan - October 19, 1988
Richard Jackson - October 5, 1988
Jimmy Santiago Baca - September 14, 1988
Luci Tapahonso - November 20, 1987
Harriet Doerr - November 11, 1987
Joy Williams - October 21, 1987
Elizabeth Evans - October 14, 1987
Jack Gilbert - September 30, 1987
Lucille Clifton - September 23, 1987
Joy Harjo - September 16, 1987
Carl Dennis - October 15, 1986
Kenneth Koch - October 9, 1986
Tenney Nathanson - October 1, 1986
Ron Hansen - September 24, 1986
Charles Simic - September 17, 1986
Thom Gunn - September 10, 1986
Jane Miller - September 3, 1986
Diane Ackerman - November 20, 1985
Lawrence Clark Powell - November 13, 1985
Stephen Dunn - October 30, 1985
Robert Bringhurst - October 23, 1985
Howard Moss - October 16, 1985
Peter Wild - September 11, 1985
Frank Waters - October 24, 1984
Charles Wright - October 10, 1984
Robert Hemenway - October 3, 1984
Angus Wilson - September 26, 1984
Carolyn Kizer - September 19, 1984
Robert Hass - September 12, 1984
W.S. Merwin - September 5, 1984
Ron Hansen - November 30, 1983
Carolyn Forché - November 2, 1983
Myra Sklarew - October 26, 1983
Lucille Clifton - October 12, 1983
James Laughlin - October 5, 1983
James Laughlin - October 4, 1983
John A. Williams - September 28, 1983
Al Young - September 14, 1983
Jorie Graham - October 27, 1982
Larry McMurtry - October 20, 1982
Seamus Heaney - October 11, 1982
Marcia Southwick - October 6, 1982
Peter Wild - September 22, 1982
Czeslaw Milosz - September 15, 1982
Nancy Mairs - November 17, 1981
Mark Strand - November 17, 1981
Robert Pack - November 12, 1981
Patrick D. Hoctel - November 5, 1981
John Barth - November 3, 1981
Lisel Mueller - October 28, 1981
Michael Burkard - October 21, 1981
Katherine Toy Miller and Vance Bourjaily - October 19, 1981
Pamela Stewart - September 23, 1981
William Matthews - September 16, 1981
Michael Ryan - September 9, 1981
Yehuda Amichai - November 19, 1980
John Ashbery - November 4, 1980
Elizabeth Libbey - October 15, 1980
Steve Orlen - October 1, 1980
Leonard Michaels - September 24, 1980
Donald Hall - November 28, 1979
Robert Pack - October 31, 1979
Tess Gallagher - October 24, 1979
Robert Hass - September 19, 1979
Diane Wakoski - September 5, 1979
Jonathan Penner - December 6, 1978
Alan Dugan - November 25, 1978
Mona Van Duyn - November 2, 1978
Marina Rivera - November 1, 1978
Carolyn Kizer - November 1, 1978
Greg Pape - September 24, 1978
Criss E. Cannady - September 24, 1978
Steve Orlen - September 24, 1978
Michael Dennis Browne - February 2, 1978
Philip Levine - November 10, 1977
George Keithley - November 4, 1977
William Matthews - November 4, 1977
Galway Kinnell - November 3, 1977
Coleman Barks - November 3, 1977
Marvin Bell - November 3, 1977
Ross Talarico - November 3, 1977
Thomas Rogers - October 20, 1977
Kathleen Fraser - September 29, 1977
C.E. Poverman - September 22, 1977
William Stafford - December 1, 1976
Primus St. John - November 3, 1976
Anglo-American Bicentennial Exchange of Poets: Patricia Beer, Adrian Henri, and Pete Morgan - October 26, 1976
Bruce Dobler - October 13, 1976
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - September 15, 1976
Robert Coover - November 12, 1975
Tomas Tranströmer - November 6, 1975
Stephen Dunn - November 5, 1975
Lucille Clifton - October 22, 1975
Stephen Spender - October 13, 1975
Steve Orlen - September 25, 1975
Maxine Kumin - December 4, 1974
Leslie Marmon Silko - November 19, 1974
John Williams - November 13, 1974
N. Scott Momaday - October 31, 1974
Edward Field - October 23, 1974
John Harmon McElroy: An Evening with Nineteenth Century American Writers - November 28, 1973
Denise Levertov - October 9, 1973
Richard Howard - September 25, 1973
W.D. Snodgrass - September 13, 1973
William Pitt Root - November 14, 1972
Thom Gunn - October 4, 1972
Donald Hall - September 27, 1972
Ai - September 13, 1972
James Welch - November 10, 1971
Peter Redgrove - October 27, 1971
D.M. Thomas - October 27, 1971
Diane Wakoski - October 6, 1971
Peter Wild - December 10, 1970
Diane Wakoski - November 12, 1970
Jim Harrison - November 9, 1970
Michael Cuddihy - October 14, 1970
Ramona Weeks - October 14, 1970
Franz Douskey - October 14, 1970
George Hitchcock - December 10, 1969
Keith Wilson - November 12, 1969
James Tate - November 20, 1968
Douglas Flaherty - October 24, 1968
Gene Frumkin - October 24, 1968
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - October 11, 1967
Robert Bly - November 30, 1966
Ruth Stone - December 8, 1965
Robert Sward - October 5, 1965
Gary Snyder - December 9, 1964
Robert Creeley - December 4, 1963
George Bowering - October 30, 1963

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