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Sherman Alexie reads widely from his work and engages the audience with stories characterized by his signature humor.

Rita Dove reads from her collection American Smooth: Poems (2004).

Ellen Bryant Voigt lectures on the role of syntax in poetry, examining its uses in Philip Larkin's "Cut Grass," Donald Justice's "To the Hawks," and D.H. Lawrence's "Snake."

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

1995 Summer Resident Kymberly Taylor reads poems including "Where the Wild Things Went" and "Bird by Bird, Into This and This," which incorporates notations of birdsong from the book Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song (1992) by Charles Hartshorne.