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Greg Pape reads from Border Crossings (1978) and Little America (1976). This reading was originally given with Steve Orlen and Criss E. Cannady. 

Richard Russo reads the title story from his collection The Whore's Child and Other Stories (2002).

Tony Hoagland reads poems from the collections Donkey Gospel (1998), What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), and Hard Rain (2005), as well as one unpublished poem.

In this reading, originally given with Eloise Klein Healy, Peggy Shumaker reads from the collection Toucan Nest: Poems of Costa Rica (2013) and presents photographs from a series of residencies in Costa Rica.

Nancy Mairs reads poetry and nonfiction from her first three books, In All the Rooms of the Yellow House (1984), Plaintext (1986), and Remembering the Bone House (1989).

University of Arizona alumnus Greg Pape reads from his poetry collections Storm Pattern and Sunflower Facing the Sun, both published in 1992. He also reads several poems that later would be collected in American Flamingo (2005). His selections engage deeply with place—primarily Montana and Arizona—and lives of people within those places.