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Zucker, Rachel. The Poetics of Wrongness. Wave Books, 2023, pp. 5-6, 77-79, 104-105, 140-143, 150-156.

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Harper, Michael S. Song: I Want a Witness. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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Derricotte, Toi. Tender. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

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Barrington, Judith. "Countries." History and Geography. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1989. Differs slightly from published version.

"Instructions to the Reader of Poetry." Uncollected.

"Horses and the Human Soul." Horses and the Human Soul. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2004. Differs from published version.

"Photograph, Scotland, Circa 1950." Horses and the Human Soul. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2004.

"Four Reasons for Destroying a Spider's Web." Horses and the Human Soul. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2004.

"Word Bank." Uncollected.

"The Dyke with No Name Thinks about Landscape." Horses and the Human Soul. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2004. Differs from published version.

"Layers of Sound." Uncollected.

"History and Geography." History and Geography. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1989.

"Mother and Daughter at the Y." History and Geography. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1989.

"For a Friend whose Lover has Left." History and Geography. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1989. Differs slightly from published version.

"Why Young Girls Like to Ride Bareback." Horses and the Human Soul. Ashland, Oregon: Story Line Press, 2004. Differs slightly from published version.

"Listen." History and Geography. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1989.

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Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, 2015.

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Williams, Joy. Harrow. New York: Knopf, 2021, pp. 177-193.

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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

Reading

Bill Knott reads widely from his work. This reading includes poems from Becos (1983), Outremer (1989), and Poems 1963-1988 (1989), as well as work collected later. 

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C. K. Williams reads poems from With Ignorance (1977), Tar (1983), and Flesh and Blood (1987).
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Elizabeth Evans reads excerpts from her third novel, Rowing in Eden.

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Lorna Dee Cervantes reads primarily from Emplumada (1981) and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (1991). She also reads several poems that would go on to be collected in Drive: The First Quartet (2006). 

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In his first visit to Tucson, Franz Wright reads prose pieces, most of which were unpublished at the time of his reading, as well as several lineated poems. He comments generously on his writing process and friendships with other poets.

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In this reading given with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Kate Bernheimer reads two stories from her collection Horse, Flower, Bird (2010).

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Timothy Schaffert reads from The Coffins of Little Hope, published in 2011, and The Swan Gondola, which would be published in 2014.

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A celebration of the fairy tale, featuring readings from authors included in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010), an anthology of new fairy tales edited by Kate Bernheimer.

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Shannon Cain reads a story from her collection The Necessity of Certain Behaviors (2011) as part of the University of Arizona Prose Series. This reading was originally given with Lydia Millet.

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In this reading, originally given with Aurelie Sheehan, Beth Alvarado shares an excerpt from the short story collection Not a Matter of Love (2006).

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In this reading, originally given with Beth Alvarado, Aurelie Sheehan shares excerpts from the novel History Lessons for Girls (2006), as well as a work in progress called One Hundred Histories.

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Patricia Hampl reads an excerpt from her memoir The Florist's Daughter (2007).

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Dexter L. Booth reads poems from Scratching the Ghost (2013) along with new and uncollected work. This reading was originally given with Samuel Ace and Polly Rosenwaike.

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Timothy Liu reads new poems that would go on to be published in Don't Go Back to Sleep (2014), as well as poems from Polytheogamy (2009) and Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse (2009).

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Aurelie Sheehan reads from Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (2013). This reading was originally given with Farid Matuk.

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Just after joining the University of Arizona faculty, Elizabeth Evans reads the first chapter of an unpublished manuscript titled Ancient History, parts of which went on to be included in her novel Rowing in Eden (2000).

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Elizabeth Evans reads from the first and fifth chapter of The Blue Hour (1995). She opens her performance by reading a poem by W. B. Yeats, "Adam's Curse."
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Carolyn Kizer reads from her poems, many of which are dedicated to historical heroes or to figures who played an important role in her personal life.

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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Stephen Dunn opens with "Under the Black Oaks," the poem he had most recently written at the time of this reading. Dunn reads poems from throughout his career, often on the theme of family, including a poem about losing his mother, an atheist's parenting dilemmas as his daughter moves toward Christianity, and an ode to the sister he never had.

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Mary Elsie Robertson reads a chapter from her novel What I Have to Tell You (1989). This University of Arizona Creative Writing faculty reading was originally given with Vivian Gornick.

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Roland Flint, Poet Laureate of Maryland at the time of this reading, opens with early poems from Say It (1979) and Resuming Green (1983). Flint reads from his National Poetry Series volume Stubborn (1990), interspersing work from Stubborn with recently written poems, some of which would go on to be published in Easy (1999). Flint also discusses his work as a translator of Bulgarian and reads several of his translations.
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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.

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Poetry Center Summer Resident Hieu Minh Nguyen reads poems from This Way to the Sugar (2014) as well as new and uncollected work. This reading was originally given with Matt Bell. 

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Mark Doty reads from his collection of poetry Deep Lane (2015).

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Rachel Zucker reads from an unpublished manuscript tentatively titled "Sound Machine."

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In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry. 

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Richard Shelton reads from his memoir Nobody Rich or Famous (2016). He also reads a related poem from Selected Poems, 1969-1981 (1982).

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Rita Dove reads from Collected Poems, 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica (2009). She also reads uncollected work.

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Benjamin Rybeck reads from his novel The Sadness (2016). This reading was originally given with Lawrence Lenhart and Natasha Stagg.

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Lydia Millet reads from a forthcoming short story collection, Fight No More. This reading was originally given with Jenny Offill.

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Ocean Vuong reads poems from Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016). This reading was originally given with Camille Rankine.

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