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"Amanda Dreams She has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"Excrement Poem." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
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"The Jesus Infection." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"Splitting Wood at Six Above." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"On Being Asked to Write a Poem in Memory of Anne Sexton." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"The Green Well." Looking for Luck. New York: Norton, 1992.
"Birthday Poem." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"Sunbathing on a Rooftop in Berkeley." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"We Stood There Singing." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"The Man of Many L's." Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems. New York: Penguin, 1982.
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Dove, Rita. Playlist for the Apocalypse. New York: Norton, 2021.
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Hirshfield, Jane. "Manifest." The New Yorker, vol. 98, no. 24, August 15, 2022, p. 64.
Foerster, Jennifer Elise. The Maybe-Bird. Brooklyn: The Song Cave, 2022.
Donika Kelly reads from her first two books, Bestiary (2016) and The Renunciations (2021). She closes by reading several recent, uncollected poems.
Jennifer Elise Foerster reads from The Maybe-Bird (2022), her third book of poetry. Her poems and commentary center on themes of poetry as deep listening, layered voices, and created forms that expand and circle back on themselves. Foerster closes with two short poems in Mvskoke. Part of the Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Series, this reading was originally given with Michael Wasson.
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