family history
Salinas, Luis Omar. "Late Evening Conversation with My Friend's Dog, Moses, After Watching Visconti's The Innocent." After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties. Edited by Ray González. Boston: David R. Godine, 1992. (Read by Rosemary Catacalos.)
Catacalos, Rosemary. "Swallow Wings." Again For the First Time. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.
"Restoration of the Cathedral." The Progressive (Madison), vol. 61, no. 8, August 1997, p. 35.
"From Bolivia After All This Time." Again For the First Time. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.
"Listen, Querido, They're Playing Our Song or Summer Ritual with a Poet Friend." Again For the First Time. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.
"Glassworks." The Women's Review of Books, vol. 12, no. 1, 1994, p. 22.
"Women Talk of Flowers at Dusk." Begin Here. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013. Appeared earlier in Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. Edited by Victor Hernández Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana, and Virgil Suarez. New York: Persea Books, 1995, pp. 21-22.
"Insufficient Light." Begin Here. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013. Appeared earlier in Floricanto Sí!: A Collection of Latina Poetry. Edited by Bryce Milligan, Mary Guerrero Milligan, and Angela De Hoyos. New York: Penguin Books, 1998, p. 60.
"Flowers and Umbrellas on a Texas Beach: Postcard from a Painter." Published version bears the title "Picture Postcard from a Painter." Begin Here. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013.
"Borderline: Brownsville/Matamoros." Southwest Review, vol. 80, no. 4, October 1995, p. 445.
"Pumpkins by the Sea." Begin Here. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013.
"David Talamántez on the Last Day of Second Grade." Begin Here. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013. Appeared earlier in Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School. Edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999, pp. 166-168.
Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.
Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.
Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.
Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.
Ríos, Alberto. The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2002.
Franco, Gina. The Accidental. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
Lucille Clifton reads poems on many subjects, including family and illness, as well as a series of Rastafarian-inspired poems about the life of the Biblical figure Mary. In addition to poems, Clifton reads excerpts from Generations: A Memoir and her children's book Sonora Beautiful.
Eavan Boland discusses both her work and her identity as an Irish poet in this reading.
Jimmy Santiago Baca reads poems and prose from his body of work, including A Glass of Water (2009), A Place to Stand (2002), Healing Earthquakes (2001), Martín & Meditations on the South Valley (1987), and C-Train (Dream Boy's Story) and Thirteen Mexicans: Poems (2002).
Essayist and poet Erik Reece reads poems from A Short History of the Present (2009) and essays from An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God (2009) as well as Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea (2016).
Roberto Tejada gives a talk titled "Diagonal and Self-Possessed Group Portrait with Liminal Figures" as part of the 2017 Thinking Its Presence conference.
Rita Dove reads from her Collected Poems, 1974-2004 (2016) as well as from uncollected poems at the Phoenix Art Museum. This reading was originally given with Sandra Cisneros and Joy Harjo in partnership with ArchiTEXTS: A Conversation Across Languages with Natalie Diaz.
Joy Harjo reads from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015) and from uncollected work at the Phoenix Art Museum. She also reads one poem from The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994). This reading was originally given with Sandra Cisneros and Rita Dove in partnership with ArchiTEXTS: A Conversation Across Languages with Natalie Diaz.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson reads from and discusses No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller (2012). A conversation with Stephanie Troutman concludes the reading.
Victoria Chang reads from her published works Obit (2020), Dear Memory (2021), and The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She also shares new, uncollected poems. Chang's poems touch upon grief from the death of her parents, as well as found material from family archives. She also reads work structured in a Japanese syllabic form called waka.
Alberto Ríos, poet laureate of Arizona and alumnus of the UA MFA in Creative Writing program, reads across his published body of work, specifically poems from his books Whispering to Fool the Wind (1982), The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (2002), The Dangerous Shirt (2009), and Not Go Away Is My Name (2020). Major themes in this reading include Ríos' grandmother, language, ancestry, and occasions around food. This reading was originally given alongside Cara Blue Adams and Aisha Sabatini Sloan to celebrate the MFA program's 50th anniversary.
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