Brenda Hillman - January 25, 2024

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Poetry Center
Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman reads from In a Few Minutes Before Later (2022), her eleventh collection of poetry, including poems set during the COVID-19 pandemic. She briefly discusses her translation—done in collaboration with her mother—of Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar, and closes with two new poems focused on her mother's garden and her childhood home.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Jane Miller

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Opening Remarks
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"Concerning the Meaning Molecule in Poetry"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"First Tractate"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Hillman, Brenda. Death Tractates. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992. 

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"Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"Poem While the Power Was Out"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"Activism & Poetry—A Brief Report : :: :: :"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"The American Burying Beetle"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"Noite carioca / Carioca Night"
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Cesar, Ana Cristina. At Your Feet. Trans. Brenda Hillman and Helen Hillman with Sebastião Edson Macedo. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2018. 

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"History of Punctuation on the Face"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"Winter Song for One Who Suffers"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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":::[a ragged white moth passes by]:::"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"[little breath circles all across town]"
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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"On Hearing the Golden-crowned Sparrow"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022. 

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"To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother’s Garden"
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Hillman, Brenda. "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother’s Garden." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 26 December 2022. Web. Accessed 21 February 2024.

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"In a Calm Room on Earth"
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Uncollected.

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Brenda Hillman
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Paola Valenzuela
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