romantic relationships
Lopate, Phillip. The Daily Round. New York: SUN Press, 1976.
Kelly, Donika. The Renunciations. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Silently Loud. Minneapolis: Unrestricted Editions, 2023.
Elizabeth Evans reads excerpts from her third novel, Rowing in Eden.
Karen Brennan reads from her short story collection Monsters (2016). This reading was originally given with Julie Iromuanya.
Natasha Stagg reads from her novel Surveys (2016). This reading was originally given with Lawrence Lenhart and Benjamin Rybeck.
Sylvia Chan reads poems from her collection We Remain Traditional (2018). This reading was originally given with Francisco Cantú and Thomas Mira y Lopez.
Sandra Cisneros and translator Liliana Valenzuela read from Cisneros' Woman Without Shame (2022) and Valenzuela's Spanish-language translation, Mujer sin vergüenza (2022), selecting poems that consider womanhood, aging, and freedom as a woman. Valenzuela also reads poems of her own from Codex of Journeys: Bendito camino (2012) and Codex of Love: Bendita ternura (2020), which also consider womanhood, desire, and the act of looking.