genocide
Morgan, Saretta. Alt-Nature. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2024.
In this reading, originally given with Poetry Center Summer Resident Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Naomi Benaron reads from her Bellwether Prize-winning novel Running the Rift (2012).
Timothy Liu reads new poems that would go on to be published in Don't Go Back to Sleep (2014), as well as poems from Polytheogamy (2009) and Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse (2009).
Monica Sok reads poems from her collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On (2020). This reading was originally given alongside Tiana Clark.
Hala Alyan opens with excerpts from her 2024 essay "'I am not there and I am not here': a Palestinian American poet on bearing witness to atrocity." She then reads from her poetry collection The Moon That Turns You Back (2024) alongside recent, uncollected poems.