reading

Albert Goldbarth reads poems from To Be Read in 500 Years (2009) and The Kitchen Sink (2007).

Lucy Corin reads from her short story collection, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (2013). This reading was originally given with Susan Steinberg.

In this matinee performance at Tucson High School, Eduardo C. Corral reads from Slow Lightning (2012), provides commentary, and participates in a question and answer session with Natalie Diaz.

Brenda Hillman reads from her books Bright Existence (1993), Practical Water (2009), and Seasonal Works With Letters On Fire (2013), along with uncollected and new poems. 

Randall Horton gives the inaugural reading in the Poetry Center’s Art for Justice series. Horton reads new work commissioned by the Poetry Center from a manuscript in progress titled #219128, as well as excerpts from Hook: A Memoir (2015). Ojalá Systems gives an introductory performance.

At this special event for middle school students, Celia C. Pérez talks about zines and her experiences as a writer. She reads briefly from her first book, The First Rule of Punk (2017). She then leads a hands-on workshop in which the students look at a selection of zines and create their own.

Tracy K. Smith reads from her essay collection Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (2025), alternating between the book's prose and recent poems. These recent poems come from Such Color: New and Selected Poems (2021) and from an unpublished manuscript titled The Forest. Smith describes poetry as an intervention amidst the rise of de-humanizing values and as a response that invites us to recognize the humanity in one another.