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Kelly, Donika. The Renunciations. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Tracie Morris reads from Chap-T-Her Won (1993) and Intermission (1998). This reading/performance was originally given with DJ Renegade at an event titled Mondo Hip-Hop.
Leroy V. Quintana reads poems including "Guadalupe," "Frida," and "Points North." Estela Portillo Trambley reads from her short story "If It Weren't For The Honeysuckle" (1975).
Vivian Gornick reads from Fierce Attachments (1987), a memoir of the author's past and present relationship with her mother. This University of Arizona Creative Writing faculty reading was originally given with Mary Elsie Robertson.
Donika Kelly reads from her first two books, Bestiary (2016) and The Renunciations (2021). She closes by reading several recent, uncollected poems.