process

Marguerite Young reads selections of her poetry and excerpts from her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), offering commentary on the process and context for each piece. 

A conversation between Clark Coolidge and John Melillo, followed by a question and answer session.

In this lecture titled "The Lives of the Poems," Joshua Beckman discusses his writing process and the physical experience of his poems. Included throughout are excerpts from unpublished poems written between 2008 and 2012.

Paul Zimmer reads poems inspired by his troubled youth during the Eisenhower years, as well as several persona poems.

Jen Bervin discusses Emily Dickinson's manuscripts and compositional processes, with special attention to the poet's manipulations of the physical page.