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Goldberg, Beckian Fritz. In the Badlands of Desire. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Press, 1993.
Eady, Cornelius. The Gathering of My Name. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991.
Gardinier, Suzanne. The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 133.
"Migrations (It was the moon of big winds In the night)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 130.
"The Ghost of Santo Domingo (They gave us broken crockery broken)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 109.
"Admirals (The people go naked men and women)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 82.
"The Ghost of Santo Domingo (That the earth may shelter and sustain us)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 83.
"Admirals (He stares south on his column over anchors)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 4.
"Memorials (This afternoon cut bound shocks of cane)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, pp. 127-129.
"Blues (You tell me no trouble's on your trail)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 95.
"To The City of Fire (All along there have been places where I)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 107.
"To Peace (When will you come The days are long the nights)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 6.
"To Peace (Peace I have feared you hated you scuffed dirt)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 31.
"To Peace (Why should you come to meet me your most)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 84.
"Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught To See (Before you I walked with my hands in my pockets)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 98.
"Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught To See (Rain shines black where the red-and-white-light-laced)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 20.
"At School (Excuse me the teacher says Where are you going)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 61.
"Democracy (Where there was furnishing and canopy)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 47.
"Refugees (Every night she dreams of departure)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 10.
"To The City of Fire (If I forget you let my sleep dwindle)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 3.
"Blues (Come here baby wrap your arms around)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 17.
Chin, Marilyn. A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018.
Michael S. Harper reads from across his first four books, all published in the years shortly before this reading: Dear John, Dear Coltrane (1970), History Is Your Own Heartbeat (1971), Song: I Want a Witness (1972), and Debridement (1973). Harper shares poems that delve into the loss of children, racial inequality, and the Vietnam War, mixing them with poems that express his love for his wife and family.
Ishmael Reed performs poems from his extensive body of work, including several unpublished poems. He remarks that his reading will "start out with a song and end with a song"--that is, with his poems "Betty's Ball Blues" and "I'm Running for the Office of Love" as set to music by Taj Mahal and Allen Toussaint.
Donald Justice performs poems published between 1973 and 1987. The first two sections from his poetic sequence My South are read and introduced with titles that differ from those that appear in the 1987 collection The Sunset Maker.
Al Young reads poems from The Blues Don't Change (1982) and Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990 (1992), along with several prose selections.
Geraldine Connolly reads poems informed by sense of place, particularly Montana, in a performance for the Tucson Festival of Books.
Gary Copeland Lilley reads from The Subsequent Blues (2004). This reading was originally given with Brenda Shaughnessy and David Dominguez.
Al Young reads from Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs (1995), Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990 (1992), and The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000 (2001).
Suzanne Gardinier reads from her first collection of poetry, The New World (1993), a book-length poem on the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and the ongoing legacy of colonialism in American life.
In this performance for the Writers at Work Series, Katherine Toy Miller and Vance Bourjaily read from their fiction. Katherine Toy Miller reads six short stories from a collection titled Eleanor, along with a short story titled "The Critical Session." Vance Bourjaily reads segments from a novel-in-progress called The Great Fake Book. Bourjaily ends his reading by performing a short solo on the cornet.
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