documentary poetry
Track
Herd, Niki. The Stuff of Hollywood. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024, pp. 44-51, 60-61, 66-67, 74-75.
Reading
Niki Herd reads new, uncollected poems together with sections of The Stuff of Hollywood (2024), her book-length documentary poem on American violence. Throughout, her poems incorporate found texts as they address racism, violence against Black Americans, the January 6 insurrection, increasing isolation, and questions of complicity.
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