daily life

Adam Zagajewski reads from Tremor (1985) and Solidarity, Solitude (1990). He also reads early drafts of translations of poems that would go on to be collected in Canvas (1991); most differ from those that appear in the published version of the book (translated by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams).

Eileen Myles reads poems from a "Working Life" (2023) focused on daily life, love, animals, humor, and the act of writing. Myles opens with an unpublished essay and concludes with new poems—several of which respond to animal cruelty—as well as a short story.

Mathias Svalina reads from his eighth book, Thank You, Terror (2024). He also reads "dreams," surrealist prose poems written across the past eleven years of his Dream Delivery Service, through which Svalina delivers dreams by bike to subscribers. This reading was originally given alongside Richard Siken.

Susan Briante reads from 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works (2025). She primarily reads new poems from the collection that consider themes of anti-capitalism, revolution, and family. Collages included in the book are shown throughout. Briante opens with a poem by Farid Matuk, with whom this reading was originally given.

Matthew Olzmann reads new, uncollected work after opening with two poems from his third collection, Constellation Route (2022). Throughout, his poems utilize humor and absurdity as they examine human connection and contemporary life. This reading was originally given alongside Vievee Francis.

Vievee Francis reads from The Shared World (2023) and Forest Primeval (2016), along with one uncollected poem. The poems she reads consider the griefs and joys of close relationships amidst the strains of our present world. This reading was originally given alongside Matthew Olzmann.

Karen Emmerich reads from her translations of Greek poets Manolis Anagnostakis, Yannis Ritsos, Miltos Sachtouris, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Eleni Vakalo. She opens by reading from Jack Spicer's After Lorca and closes with a poem by George Seferis translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. This reading was presented in collaboration with the American Literary Translators Association and as part of the ALTA48 conference.