domesticity
Levertov, Denise. The Freeing of the Dust. New York: New Directions, 1975.
Zapruder, Matthew. Story of a Poem. Los Angeles: The Unnamed Press, 2023, pp. 108-109.
Choi, Franny. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. New York: Ecco, 2022.
Ostriker, Alicia. The Holy & Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2024.
Ostriker, Alicia. The Holy & Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2024.
Ostriker, Alicia. The Holy & Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2024.
John Ashbery reads widely from his body of work, including poems from both Shadow Train and A Wave, which were published in the four years that followed this reading.
Alan Feldman reads from his collection The Happy Genius (1978), as well as two new poems. This reading was originally given with Faye Kicknosway and Linda Gregg.
Jenny Offill reads from Dept. of Speculation (2014) as well as from a novel in progress, American Weather. This reading was originally given with Lydia Millet.
Alicia Ostriker reads from her seventeenth book of poems, The Holy & Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time (2024). Written during the Covid-19 pandemic, these poems move through domesticity, political division, police brutality, and Ostriker's ongoing spiritual quest. Ostriker was delayed in reaching Tucson and appeared via Zoom for an in-person audience. This reading was originally given with Eleanor Wilner.
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