place-based

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Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. "A Context of a Wave." Conjunctions 17 (1991): 42-53.

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Pape, Greg. "The Ani." American Flamingo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

"The Morning Horse, Canyon de Chelly." Storm Pattern. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

"Wijiji." Storm Pattern. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

"Trains: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Spring, 1983." Storm Pattern. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

"Some Names." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

"In Line at the Supermarket." Storm Pattern. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

"Evening News" (published as section 3 of "Elegy for the Duke of Earl"). American Flamingo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

"Peace." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

"Church." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

"Cows." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

"Turning Things Over, Rock Creek, Montana." Storm Pattern. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

"Remember the Moose." American Flamingo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

"Among the Various Errors." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

"In the Birthing Room." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

"Blessing at the Citadel." Sunflower Facing the Sun. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

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Vicuña, Cecilia. New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Kelsey Street Press, 2018.

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Grace, Andrew. A Brief History of the Midwest. New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2025.

Reading

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.

Reading

As part of the Terrain.org 25th Anniversary reading, Julie Swarstad Johnson reads poems that consider the night sky, astronomy, and place. She primarily reads from a sequence of epistolary poems titled "Night Letters," and she opens with one poem from Pennsylvania Furnace (2019). This reading was originally given alongside Derek Sheffield and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke.

Reading

Zeina Hashem Beck reads from her first three books—To Live in Autumn (2014), Louder Than Hearts (2017), and O (2022)—as well as from her forthcoming This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty (2027). Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, feature throughout the work Hashem Beck shares. She also reads poems in forms including  a triptych, a bilingual "duet" mixing English and Arabic, and "flipping" sonnets, which are read both top to bottom and bottom to top.

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