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Morgenstern, Christian. Gallows Songs. Translated by W.D. Snodgrass and Lore Groszmann Segal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.
Morgenstern, Christian. Gallows Songs. Translated by W.D. Snodgrass and Lore Groszmann Segal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.
Morgenstern, Christian. Gallows Songs. Translated by W.D. Snodgrass and Lore Groszmann Segal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.
Momaday, N. Scott. "The Minor Writer." Unpublished.
"On Chastity." In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
"The Death of a Ceramicist." Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. "Ghost Trap." New Chicana/Chicano Writing. Ed. Charles M. Tatum. Vol 1. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1992. 40-42. Print.
Kinnell, Galway. When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Hopler, Jay. Still Life. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2022.
Hopler, Jay. Still Life. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2022.
Foster, Sesshu. World Ball Notebook. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2008.
Urrea, Luis Alberto. The House of Broken Angels. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Dove, Rita. Playlist for the Apocalypse. New York: Norton, 2021.
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Every Day We Get More Illegal. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2020.
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.
Luis Alberto Urrea reads poems from The Tijuana Book of the Dead (2015) focused on life in the US-Mexico borderlands. He opens with one poem forthcoming in Piedra (2023) and concludes with a chapter from The House of Broken Angels (2019), retold from memory. This reading was presented as part of the 2021 Tucson Humanities Festival.
Los Angeles poet Sesshu Foster reads from City Terrace Field Manual (1996), World Ball Notebook (2008), and City of the Future (2018). He reads poems that engage with East LA, the influences of his father, and his own life as a father, mixing candor and humor throughout.
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