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Poet, playwright, and novelist Owen Dodson reads a range of poems from his distinguished career. As he introduces his poems, Dodson reflects on his consciousness as a writer, from his undergraduate days at Bates College to his engagement with spirituality, Civil Rights, and social justice.

Vivian Gornick reads from Fierce Attachments (1987), a memoir of the author's past and present relationship with her mother. This University of Arizona Creative Writing faculty reading was originally given with Mary Elsie Robertson.

sam sax reads poems that would be published four years later in Pig (2023), as well as work from his first two collections, madness (2017) and bury it (2018). This reading was originally given alongside Erika L. Sánchez as part of the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading Series.

Robert Pinsky reads poems published across thirty-five years, many of which engage with poetic and cultural ancestors. He opens with work collected in his Selected Poems (2011) before reading from his newest collection, Proverbs of Limbo (2024). Pinsky also reads two new poems that appeared in magazines around the time of this reading.