epistolary poem
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Mura, David. After We Lost Our Way. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
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Kelly, Donika. The Renunciations. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
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Dominguez, Angel. Desgraciado (the collected letters). New York: Nightboat Books, 2022, pp. 108-109.
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Rekdal, Paisley. West: A Translation. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2023.
Reading
Garrett Hongo reads from and discusses a cycle of poems written from the point of view of Kubota, a figure based on his maternal grandfather. He also reads poems written by Japanese internees at a detention center in Santa Fe during the 1940s.
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Paul Zimmer reads poems inspired by his troubled youth during the Eisenhower years, as well as several persona poems.
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Jen Bervin discusses Emily Dickinson's manuscripts and compositional processes, with special attention to the poet's manipulations of the physical page.