anthology

Authors collected in the anthology Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (2011) read from their work. Introductions are made by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, the editor of this collection.

A reading celebrating the release of I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place.

A celebration of the fairy tale, featuring readings from authors included in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010), an anthology of new fairy tales edited by Kate Bernheimer.

Samuel Ace reads poems from Stealth (2011) as well as new and uncollected work. This reading was originally given with Polly Rosenwaike and Dexter L. Booth.

LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Joy Harjo discuss and read poetry from the anthology When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). Diana Marie Delgado leads a conversation to conclude the event. This reading was given online as the first event from the Institute for Inquiry and Poetics, a thought center founded at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and designed to create space and time for poets to respond to pressing questions that reside at the intersection of social concern and poetry. 

As part of the Terrain.org 25th Anniversary reading, Derek Sheffield reads poems via Zoom on the connection between humans and the natural world, drawn from his collections Through the Second Skin (2013) and Not For Luck (2021). He also discusses and reads from two anthologies he co-edited, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (2023) and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (2020). This reading was originally given alongside Julie Swarstad Johnson and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke.

This launch event for the anthology Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration (2025) includes readings by three poets from the book, following an introduction to the project by editor Diana Marie Delgado. Sin à Tes Souhaits reads poems focused on mass incarceration and the cycles of violence it perpetuates. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera reads poems in Spanish and English about el Oso Blanco, a prison built with the labor of enslaved people and prisoners in Puerto Rico. Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads an essay on Game of Thrones viewed as a story of Latine identity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. A series of short poem-films shown at the event is not included for reasons of copyright.

Alison Hawthorne Deming reads poems focused on animals, humans' relationship with the natural world, and the political landscape of post-2016 America. These poems come from The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection (2025), edited by Deming, and her sixth collection of poetry, Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower (2025). This reading was originally given with Sally Ball.