aesthetics

David Rivard lectures on risk-taking and the New York School, incorporating recordings by Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and others.

Patricia Hampl reads poetry and prose from Woman Before an Aquarium (1978), Resort and Other Poems (1983), and A Romantic Education (1981); she also reads a short story from the anthology The North Country Reader: Classic Stories from Minnesota Writers (1979).

Roberto Tejada reads poems from Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), which he describes as inhabiting the "actual and surreal" US-Mexico Borderlands. He also reads from a manuscript in progress begun during the Coronavirus pandemic titled Carbonate of Copper, informed by a widening and blurring sense of the self, the human, and the non-human.