historical

Adrienne Rich reads poems appearing in The Will to Change (1971) and Diving into the Wreck (1973), as well as more recent poems that would be collected in Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1975).

Adrienne Rich reads poems from the collections Your Native Land, Your Life (1986) and Time's Power (1989).

Bhanu Kapil reads selections from Humanimal: A Project for Future Children, released by Kelsey Street Press the year following Kapil's Next Word reading. This reading was originally given with Mónica de la Torre and Ben Lerner. 

Natasha Wimmer reads her translations from the Spanish of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue, and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. She opens with a translation-in-progress of Dalton's poems written in 1970s Cuba before turning to Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires (2024), a novel about the Spanish conquistadors' stay in Tenochtitlan in 1519. She closes with an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives (2007), which follows fictional young poets in Mexico City.