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Lee, Li-Young. The City In Which I Love You. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1990.

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Harper, Michael S. Song: I Want a Witness. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.

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Harper, Michael S. Debridement. Garden City: Doubleday, 1973.

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Johnson, Denis. Jesus' Son. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992.
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Dugan, Alan. Poems 6. New York: Ecco Press, 1989.

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Dugan, Alan. Poems 6. New York: Ecco Press, 1989.

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Graham, Jorie. Region of Unlikeness. New York: Ecco, 1991.

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Graham, Jorie. Region of Unlikeness. New York: Ecco, 1991.

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Emanuel, Lynn. The Dig. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

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Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Levertov. Denise. Evening Train. New York: New Directions, 1992.
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Forché, Carolyn. "Kalaloch." Gathering the Tribes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

"San Onofre, California." The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

"The Visitor." The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

"Ourselves or Nothing." The Country Between Us. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

"Translator's Note." The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos. Translated by Carolyn Forché and William T. Kulik. New York: Ecco, 1991.

"The Garden Shukkei-en." The Angel of History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

"The Recording Angel." The Angel of History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

"Elegy." The Angel of History. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

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Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

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Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

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Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

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Kelly, Donika. The Renunciations. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.

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Monson, Ander. Predator. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2022, pp. 137-139.

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Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.

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greathouse, torrin a. "It's Blood That Makes Men Hard." Midst, 9 September 2021. Web. Viewed 23 March 2023.

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greathouse, torrin a. "Vanitas Vanitatum." Black Warrior Review, vol. 47, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2021, pp. 116-117.

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López, Manuel Paul. Nerve Curriculum. New York: Futurepoem Books, 2023.

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Nakayasu, Sawako. Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From. Seattle: Wave Books, 2020.

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Kunz, Edgar. Tap Out. Boston: Mariner Books, 2019.

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Levin, Dana. "House of Feels: A Craft Essay." Poetry London, Spring 2024, no. 107, pp. 76-82. Web. Accessed 14 August 2024.

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Wunderlich, Mark. God of Nothingness. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.

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Reeves, Roger. Best Barbarian. New York: W.W. Norton, 2022.

Reading

Seamus Heaney reads from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), North (1975), Field Work (1979), and Sweeney Astray (1983). The reading also features Heaney's lively banter.

Reading

Yusef Komunyakaa reads widely from his poetry published in the 1980s, including many poems from Dien Cai Dau (1988). He also reads poems that would soon thereafter be collected in Magic City (1992) and Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1993).

Reading

Ai reads solely from the manuscript for Sin, a collection published the year following this reading. She briefly discusses her time at the University of Arizona, where she was a student during the late 1960s.

Reading

Denis Johnson reads from his third and fourth books of poetry, The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems (1982) and The Veil (1987). He also reads from his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992), published the year prior to this reading. He primarily selects pieces set in Arizona.

Reading

Patricia Smith reads widely from her work, including several uncollected poems.

Reading

In this reading at Pima Community College, Ai reads poems that would later be collected in Cruelty (1973), some of which differ from the published versions. She also reads several poems that would remain uncollected and talks about her experiences in graduate school.

Reading

Poet, playwright, and novelist Owen Dodson reads a range of poems from his distinguished career. As he introduces his poems, Dodson reflects on his consciousness as a writer, from his undergraduate days at Bates College to his engagement with spirituality, Civil Rights, and social justice.

Reading

In Alan Dugan's last performance at the Poetry Center, he reads widely from work published during the 26 years between 1963 and 1989. He reads poems about art and artists, Greek and Roman antiquity, contemporary life in Provincetown, World War II, work, and cats.

Reading

Rebecca Seiferle reads a long sequence, "On the Island of Bones," from her poetry collection Wild Tongue (2007). This reading for the 2009 Tucson Festival of Books was originally given alongside Demetria Martínez.

Reading

Lorna Dee Cervantes reads primarily from Emplumada (1981) and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (1991). She also reads several poems that would go on to be collected in Drive: The First Quartet (2006). 

Reading

Niki Herd reads at a symposium hosted by Feminist Formations, an interdisciplinary journal of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Herd's performance includes a poem from The Language of Shedding Skin (2010) and an excerpt from a work in progress. This reading was originally given with Natalie Diaz.

Reading

Alan Heathcock reads from the collection Volt: Stories (2011).

Reading

Brian Turner reads from Here, Bullet (2005). This reading was originally given with Srikanth Reddy and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

Reading

Richard Siken reads poems that would later be published in Crush (2005). This reading was originally given with Brian Blanchfield.

Reading

Dana Levin reads primarily from In the Surgical Theatre (1999). This reading was originally given with Louise Glück.

Reading

Natalie Diaz reads poems from When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012) as well as new and uncollected work. This reading was originally given with Eduardo C. Corral to inaugurate the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading Series.

Reading

Douglas Flaherty reads poems from The Elderly Battlefield Nurse (1968). This reading was originally given with Gene Frumkin.

Reading

Farid Matuk reads poems from My Daughter La Chola (2013). This reading was originally given with Aurelie Sheehan.

Reading

Lucille Clifton reads poems spanning two decades of work.

Reading

CAConrad reads poems from The Book of Frank (2009), A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics (2012), and Translucent Salamander: A (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual and Resulting Poems (2013), along with new and uncollected work.

Reading

Martín Espada reads from Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction (1987), Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands (1990), and City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993).

Reading

Poetry Center Summer Resident Stephen Willey reads from "Living In," a manuscript-in-progress; the section performed here was composed during his residency. This reading was originally given with Brian Blanchfield and Karen Brennan.

Reading

Luis J. Rodriguez reads from The Concrete River (1991) and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (1993), along with poems that would later be collected in Trochemoche (1998). He also discusses his experiences with Los Angeles gang violence and the Chicano movement as well as his work with at-risk youth.

Reading

Leslie Marmon Silko reads from her poems and fiction, including excerpts from Almanac of the Dead (1991) and Storyteller (1981). She also performs traditional oral stories.

Reading

Leonard Michaels reads from short stories written throughout his career, and concludes the reading with an excerpt from his novel The Men's Club (1981). His uncompromising realist sketches catch characters at their darkest and most vulnerable moments, and are colored with absurdist humor. Stories include those published in his collections Going Places (1969) and I Would Have Saved Them If I Could (1975). 

Reading

Vivian Gornick reads from Fierce Attachments (1987), a memoir of the author's past and present relationship with her mother. This University of Arizona Creative Writing faculty reading was originally given with Mary Elsie Robertson.

Reading

francine j. harris reads poems from her collection allegiance (2012) and from her upcoming manuscript play dead (Alice James Books, 2016). This reading was originally given with Tarfia Faizullah as part of the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading Series.

Reading

Terrance Hayes reads from each of his published books: Muscular Music (1999), Hip Logic (2002), Wind in a Box (2006), Lighthead (2010), and How to Be Drawn (2015). He also reads recent, unpublished poems on the spectacle of violence. This reading was given as part of the Spectacular Poetics series.

Reading

Adrian Matejka intersperses thoughts on spectacular poetics with readings of poems from Mixology (2009) and The Big Smoke (2013); he also reads new and uncollected work. This reading was given as part of the Spectacular Poetics Series. 

Reading

Alison Hawthorne Deming discusses the Climate Change & Poetry Series. She also reads from Stairway to Heaven (2016) and from uncollected work. This reading was given as part of the Climate Change & Poetry Series.

Reading

Ocean Vuong reads poems from Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016). This reading was originally given with Camille Rankine.

Reading

Reginald Dwayne Betts reads from his poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015), along with one uncollected poem.

Reading

Poet Douglas Kearney and percussionist/electronic musican Val Jeanty present a collaborative performance titled "Fodder," which combines poetry and music at the 2017 Thinking Its Presence Conference. The poems primarily come from Kearney's Buck Studies (2016).

Reading

Tommy Pico reads from his book-length poems Junk (2018), published the year of this reading, and Feed (2019), published the year after this reading. He also reads one poem from Morgan Parker's There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (2017). This reading was originally given with Morgan Parker as part of the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading Series.

Reading

Rubén Martínez discusses being at an impasse in writing, what he describes as surgimiento in Spanish, or emergence. His talk touches on his personal experience and writing, as well as work by other writers and artists.

Reading

James Allen Hall reads the title essay from I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well (2017).

Reading

Daniel Borzutzky reads from his translations of Raúl Zurita's Song for His Disappeared Love (2010) and Country of Planks (2015), as well as Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia (2016). He also reads from his own poetry collection Lake Michigan (2018) and a manuscript titled Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018.

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Nikky Finney reads poems from her collections The World Is Round (2003) and Lovechild's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (forthcoming in 2020). Finney also reads her new work titled "Black Boy with Cow: A Still Life" commissioned for the Poetry Center's Art for Justice series. Members of the American Friends Service Committee, Tucson give an introductory presentation.

Reading

Natalie Shapero reads poems from Hard Child (2017) along with other uncollected poems.

Reading

Rosa Alcalá reads from her translations of Cecilia Vicuña's poetry presented in New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña (2018). She also reads uncollected poems of her own. This reading was given as part of the Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works-in-Translation Series.

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Monica Sok reads poems from her collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On (2020). This reading was originally given alongside Tiana Clark.

Reading

Reading in Tucson for the second time in 1972, Ai reads from her manuscript then titled Wheel in a Ditch, which would be published the following year as Cruelty (1973), her first book. She also reads several poems that would appear in her second book, Killing Floor (1979), as well as several that remain uncollected. 

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torrin a. greathouse reads poems from two manuscripts in progress: DEED, focused on the intersections of desire, desirability, and violence, and a newer manuscript that turns to California's Central Valley and climate change. Discussions of poetic form recur throughout. greathouse was selected as the Poetry Center's 2020 Summer Resident; due to the Covid-19 pandemic, her residency was deferred, and this reading was presented online.

Reading

As part of the Terrain.org 25th Anniversary reading, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke reads from her book-length poem Look at This Blue (2022), focusing on extinctions and climate change in California, as well as on poverty and violence. This reading was originally given alongside Julie Swarstad Johnson and Derek Sheffield.

Reading

Mark Wunderlich opens by reading from his fourth collection, God of Nothingness (2021), before turning to recently written poems. He shares work that centers on the body, animals, violence, and the complex inheritances arising from lineage and place.

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