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Brown, Sterling A. The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown. Edited by Michael S. Harper. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Snodgrass, W.D. After Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Enrigue, Álvaro. You Dreamed of Empires. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. New York: Riverhead Books, 2024.
Poetry Center Summer Resident Cody Walker reads poems from Shuffle and Breakdown (2008), along with new and uncollected works and a poem by Gavin Ewart.
Heriberto Yépez reads excerpts from his poem A Brochure on Futureless Science Fiction Poetics. This reading was originally given with Richard Siken and Camille Dungy for the Next Word in Poetry Series.
Poet and physician Fady Joudah reads uncollected and new poems; poems from Alight (2013) and Textu (2014); and translations from the works of Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Zaqtan, Hussein Barghouthi, and Amjad Nasser.
Srikanth Reddy reads from a manuscript in progress titled "Underworld Lit."
Natasha Wimmer reads her translations from the Spanish of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue, and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. She opens with a translation-in-progress of Dalton's poems written in 1970s Cuba before turning to Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires (2024), a novel about the Spanish conquistadors' stay in Tenochtitlan in 1519. She closes with an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives (2007), which follows fictional young poets in Mexico City.
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