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Charles Wright reads from several of his books, along with three poems that would later be published, in slightly different versions, in his 1988 collection Zone Journals.

Howard Moss reads widely from his body of work.

In this reading, originally given with Alison Hawthorne Deming, Jane Miller reads poems from the collection A Palace of Pearls (2005).

Jack Gilbert reads primarily from The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992 (1995) and Refusing Heaven (2005).

An interview with poet, publisher, and New Directions founder James Laughlin, hosted by Lawrence Clark Powell.

Thomas Mira y Lopez reads from his essay collection The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead (2018). This reading was originally given with Francisco Cantú and Sylvia Chan. 

Kim Addonizio reads poems from her collection Mortal Trash (2016) as well as new, uncollected work. This reading was originally given alongside Joseph O. Legaspi and Javier Zamora at the Center for Creative Photography.