reminiscence

Charles Wright reads from several of his books, along with three poems that would later be published, in slightly different versions, in his 1988 collection Zone Journals.

Carolyn Forché reads from The Country Between Us (1981), the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets for 1982. In the middle of the performance, she reads excerpts from and discusses El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers (1981), which influenced the poems in this reading.

Greg Pape reads from Border Crossings (1978) and Little America (1976). This reading was originally given with Steve Orlen and Criss E. Cannady. 

John Gardner reads from two of his stories, "Coyote and the Dead Man" and "Come on Back."

Robert Pinsky reads from his fourth book, The Want Bone (1990), alongside more recent poems that would appear in his fifth collection, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (1996). Many of the poems he reads consider the complex nature of ancestry, history, and the present they create.