legacy
Ríos, Alberto. Not Go Away Is My Name. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2020.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Hirshfield, Jane. The Lives of the Heart. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Wasson, Michael. Swallowed Light. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022.
Adrian Matejka intersperses thoughts on spectacular poetics with readings of poems from Mixology (2009) and The Big Smoke (2013); he also reads new and uncollected work. This reading was given as part of the Spectacular Poetics Series.
Michael Wasson reads poems primarily from his first full-length collection, Swallowed Light (2022), which inhabits both the fragmented self and the tensions of language and history experienced by Wasson's Nimíipuu community. Part of the Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Series, this reading was originally given with Jennifer Elise Foerster.