long poem
Finney, Nikky. Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Gardinier, Suzanne. The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 133.
"Migrations (It was the moon of big winds In the night)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 130.
"The Ghost of Santo Domingo (They gave us broken crockery broken)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 109.
"Admirals (The people go naked men and women)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 82.
"The Ghost of Santo Domingo (That the earth may shelter and sustain us)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 83.
"Admirals (He stares south on his column over anchors)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 4.
"Memorials (This afternoon cut bound shocks of cane)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, pp. 127-129.
"Blues (You tell me no trouble's on your trail)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 95.
"To The City of Fire (All along there have been places where I)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 107.
"To Peace (When will you come The days are long the nights)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 6.
"To Peace (Peace I have feared you hated you scuffed dirt)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 31.
"To Peace (Why should you come to meet me your most)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 84.
"Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught To See (Before you I walked with my hands in my pockets)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 98.
"Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught To See (Rain shines black where the red-and-white-light-laced)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 20.
"At School (Excuse me the teacher says Where are you going)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 61.
"Democracy (Where there was furnishing and canopy)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 47.
"Refugees (Every night she dreams of departure)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 10.
"To The City of Fire (If I forget you let my sleep dwindle)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 3.
"Blues (Come here baby wrap your arms around)." The New World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, p. 17.
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.
Uncollected.
Nakayasu, Sawako. Pink Waves. Oakland: Omnidawn, 2022, pp. 66-82.
Shanahan, Charif. Trace Evidence. Portland, OR: Tin House, 2023.
Hillman, Brenda. In a Few Minutes Before Later. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2022.
Franco, Gina. The Accidental. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
Franco, Gina. "Throne (excerpt)." Chiricú Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2018, p. 182.
Rebecca Seiferle reads a long sequence, "On the Island of Bones," from her poetry collection Wild Tongue (2007). This reading for the 2009 Tucson Festival of Books was originally given alongside Demetria Martínez.
Juliana Spahr reads from The Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005) and "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" as part of the Poetry Center's Fall 2009 sequence of themed readings, "Oh Earth, Wait for Me: Conversations about Art and Ecology." This reading was given alongside Jonathan Skinner.
Mónica de la Torre reads two pieces from Public Domain, including the long poem "The Crush." This reading was originally given with Bhanu Kapil and Ben Lerner as part of the Next Word in Poetry series.
Fred Moten reads his sequence "come on, get it!," which would later be collected in The Feel Trio (2014). This performance was given for his Next Word appearance with Rusty Morrison.
Charles Alexander reads widely from his work as part of the Tucson Lit Press Fest event. He closes with a selection from the ongoing collection Pushing Water, published in 2011 by Cuneiform Press.
C.D. Wright reads the first poem from her collection Tremble (1997) and a selection from String Light (1991), and discusses questions of process and craft.
Tedi López Mills reads poems from While Light Is Built (2004) with translations read by Wendy Burk.
Richard Siken reads poems from Crush (2005). This reading was originally given with Camille T. Dungy and Heriberto Yépez for the Next Word in Poetry Series.
Suzanne Gardinier reads from her first collection of poetry, The New World (1993), a book-length poem on the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and the ongoing legacy of colonialism in American life.
Poet and Poetry Center Interim Director Mark Wunderlich reads a series of poems in response to trauma, loss, and HIV/AIDS. The poems in this reading are from a manuscript-in-progress that at the time was titled The Grooves of This. Most would go on to be collected in Wunderlich's debut, The Anchorage (1999).
Khaled Mattawa presents a lecture on the long poem, in which he considers different types of long poems, their inspiration and subject matter, and their effect. The lecture incorporates portions of a published essay, "Epic Temptations: On an Unwritten Poem." Mattawa also reads from a sequence of poems in progress that would later appear in Fugitive Atlas (2020).
Monica Sok reads poems from her collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On (2020). This reading was originally given alongside Tiana Clark.
As part of the Terrain.org 25th Anniversary reading, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke reads from her book-length poem Look at This Blue (2022), focusing on extinctions and climate change in California, as well as on poverty and violence. This reading was originally given alongside Julie Swarstad Johnson and Derek Sheffield.
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