writing poetry
Uncollected.
A.K. Ramanujan reads poems from The Striders (1966) and Relations (1971).
Lawrence Raab reads from The Collector of Cold Weather (1976) and Mysteries of the Horizon (1972). He also reads a poem from his unpublished M.A. dissertation, The Wolf's Journey (1972).
Matthew Zapruder reads poems from Father's Day (2019) and his forthcoming collection I Love Hearing Your Dreams (2024), many of which center on fatherhood, family life, and writing poetry. He opens and closes the reading with excerpts from his memoir Story of a Poem (2023), focused on the act of drafting and revising a poem.
Tracy K. Smith reads from her essay collection Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (2025), alternating between the book's prose and recent poems. These recent poems come from Such Color: New and Selected Poems (2021) and from an unpublished manuscript titled The Forest. Smith describes poetry as an intervention amidst the rise of de-humanizing values and as a response that invites us to recognize the humanity in one another.
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