new york city

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Lopate, Phillip. Being With Children. New York: Poseidon, 1975.

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Merwin, W.S. The Rain in the Trees. New York: Knopf, 1988.

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Gornick, Vivian. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987.

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Vicuña, Cecilia. Spit Temple. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012.

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In this performance, Allen Ginsberg reads from Howl (1956), Kaddish (1961), and Reality Sandwiches (1963). He also discusses his writing process and reads some unpublished excerpts.

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Sharon Olds reads both published and unpublished pieces from her large body of work.
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Mark Doty discusses his experiences in Tucson and reads a poem about the local Tucson attraction The Valley of the Moon. He reads from three books: Atlantis (1995), My Alexandria (1993), and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991).
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Howard Moss reads widely from his body of work.

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Jonathan Penner reads from Going Blind (1977) as well as work published in periodicals.

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Maggie Nelson reads widely from her early work, including material from Shiner (2001) and Take Three: 3 (1998), along with uncollected poems.
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Suzanne Gardinier reads from her first collection of poetry, The New World (1993), which was chosen for the AWP Award Series in Poetry.
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Poet and Poetry Center Interim Director Mark Wunderlich reads a series of poems in response to trauma, loss, and HIV/AIDS.
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Patricia Spears Jones reads poems from across her career as published in A Lucent Fire: New & Selected Poems (2015), along with uncollected work at the 2017 Thinking Its Presence conference. She also reads one poem from Stardust, landmines, and cartoons: Poems from 2006 to 2014 (2015).

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Charles Simic reads from New and Selected Poems, 1962-2012 (2013) and The Lunatic (2015).

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