Track

Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2019.

Track

Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2019.

Track

Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2019.

Reading

Carmen Giménez Smith reads poems from Milk and Filth (2013), along with several unpublished poems. This reading was originally given with J. Michael Martinez and Roberto Tejada at an event titled Latino/a Poetry Now.

Reading

Nathalie Handal reads poems from The Lives of Rain (2005) and Spell (2006) as well as new poems.

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

Jerome Rothenberg performs a retrospective survey of his prolific body of work, beginning with poems written in the 1960s and continuing in chronological order. Most of the poems read here are collected in Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (2013). 

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 He also reads recent, unpublished poems on the spectacle of violence.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

Carolyn Forché reads excerpts from her memoir What You Have Heard Is True (2019) and poems from her collection In the Lateness of the World (2020).

Reading

Hala Alyan opens with excerpts from her 2024 essay "'I am not there and I am not here': a Palestinian American poet on bearing witness to atrocity." She then reads from her poetry collection The Moon That Turns You Back (2024) alongside recent, uncollected poems.

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