epic poem

Alice Notley reads from Reason and Other Women (2010). This reading was originally given with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. 

Srikanth Reddy reads from a manuscript in progress titled "Underworld Lit."

Khaled Mattawa presents a lecture on the long poem, in which he considers different types of long poems, their inspiration and subject matter, and their effect. The lecture incorporates portions of a published essay, "Epic Temptations: On an Unwritten Poem." Mattawa also reads from a sequence of poems in progress that would later appear in Fugitive Atlas (2020).