Spring Reading Series

This series contains all of the readings given at the Poetry Center in the spring semester (January-May) of any year.

Readings in this Series

Margo Steines - May 2, 2024
Gabriel Palacios - May 2, 2024
Maddie Norris - May 2, 2024
Gabriel Dozal - May 2, 2024
Natalia Toledo and Clare Sullivan - April 18, 2024
The Place Where Clouds Are Formed - April 4, 2024
Saretta Morgan - March 28, 2024
John Murillo - March 14, 2024
Matthew Zapruder - February 29, 2024
Sheila Maldonado - February 22, 2024
Edgar Garcia - February 22, 2024
Gina Franco - February 22, 2024
Robert Hass - January 27, 2024
Brenda Hillman - January 25, 2024
Edgar Kunz - January 18, 2024
Derek Sheffield - January 11, 2024
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke - January 11, 2024
Julie Swarstad Johnson - January 11, 2024
Jennifer Elise Foerster - April 27, 2023
Michael Wasson - April 27, 2023
Jane Hirshfield - April 13, 2023
Nicole Sealey - March 9, 2023
Juan Felipe Herrera with Farid Matuk - February 23, 2023
Tyehimba Jess - February 9, 2023
Cecilia Vicuña with Rosa Alcalá and Daniel Borzutzky - January 28, 2023
Roberto Tejada - January 12, 2023
Sesshu Foster - April 14, 2022
Donika Kelly - April 7, 2022
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo - March 17, 2022
Marwa Helal - March 17, 2022
Kimberly Johnson - February 17, 2022
Jay Hopler - February 17, 2022
Joy Williams - February 3, 2022
Forrest Gander - January 6, 2022
Monica Sok - February 13, 2020
Tiana Clark - February 13, 2020
Carolyn Forché - February 6, 2020
Rosa Alcalá - January 30, 2020
Rigoberto González - April 25, 2019
Naomi Shihab Nye - April 18, 2019
Cherríe Moraga - April 11, 2019
Natalie Diaz - April 4, 2019
Patrick Rosal - March 21, 2019
Evie Shockley - March 21, 2019
Natalie Shapero - March 14, 2019
Myriam Moscona and Antena Aire - February 28, 2019
Maurya Simon - February 21, 2019
Peggy Shumaker - February 21, 2019
Nikky Finney - February 7, 2019
Kiki Petrosino - January 31, 2019
Nicole Walker - January 24, 2019
Daniel Borzutzky - January 10, 2019
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson - April 25, 2018
Sylvia Chan - April 19, 2018
Francisco Cantú - April 19, 2018
Thomas Mira y Lopez - April 19, 2018
Ada Limón - April 5, 2018
Sawako Nakayasu - March 22, 2018
Alec Finlay - March 1, 2018
Timothy Donnelly - February 23, 2018
Rachel Zucker - February 23, 2018
Srikanth Reddy - February 23, 2018
Joshua Beckman - February 22, 2018
Terrance Hayes - February 22, 2018
Dorothea Lasky - February 22, 2018
Norman Fischer - February 16, 2018
Khaled Mattawa - February 8, 2018
Khaled Mattawa - February 1, 2018
Kristen Radtke - January 25, 2018
Charles Yu - January 25, 2018
Eleanor Wilner - January 18, 2018
Rubén Martínez - November 9, 2017
Mary Ruefle - April 20, 2017
David Shields - April 13, 2017
Elena Passarello - April 13, 2017
Ocean Vuong - April 6, 2017
Camille Rankine - April 6, 2017
Lydia Millet - March 30, 2017
Jenny Offill - March 30, 2017
Rodrigo Toscano - March 23, 2017
Johanna Skibsrud - March 9, 2017
Cynthia Hogue - March 9, 2017
Forrest Gander - March 2, 2017
Alison Hawthorne Deming - February 16, 2017
Brian Teare - January 26, 2017
Ross Gay - January 19, 2017
Brian Blanchfield - April 28, 2016
Fenton Johnson - April 28, 2016
Marilyn Hacker - April 14, 2016
David Baker - March 24, 2016
James Hannaham - March 3, 2016
Adrian Matejka - February 25, 2016
Khadijah Queen - February 18, 2016
Kimiko Hahn - February 11, 2016
Terrance Hayes - February 4, 2016
Rachel Zucker - January 28, 2016
Rachel Zucker - January 21, 2016
Jen Bervin - April 30, 2015
Natalie Diaz - April 2, 2015
Elizabeth Evans - March 26, 2015
Ofelia Zepeda - March 12, 2015
Shame Every Rose Artists' Talk - March 5, 2015
Simon J. Ortiz - February 26, 2015
Ariana Reines - February 21, 2015
Joshua Marie Wilkinson - February 21, 2015
Fady Joudah - February 19, 2015
Willy Vlautin - January 29, 2015
Kate Bernheimer - January 22, 2015
Ander Monson - January 22, 2015
Mary Szybist - May 22, 2014
Margarita Engle - April 24, 2014
Geoffrey Brock - April 10, 2014
CAConrad - March 13, 2014
Timothy Liu - February 20, 2014
Arianne Zwartjes - February 10, 2014
Aisha Sabatini Sloan - February 10, 2014
Tan Lin - January 30, 2014
Roberto Tejada - April 25, 2013
Carmen Giménez Smith - April 25, 2013
J. Michael Martinez - April 25, 2013
Ilya Kaminsky - April 11, 2013
Nathaniel Mackey - March 28, 2013
Peggy Shumaker - March 21, 2013
Eloise Klein Healy - March 21, 2013
Joshua Marie Wilkinson - February 5, 2013
Cathy Park Hong - January 24, 2013
Fanny Howe - April 26, 2012
Fanny Howe - April 25, 2012
A Poetic Inventory of Saguaro National Park - April 16, 2012
Monica Drake - March 29, 2012
Paul Guest - March 22, 2012
John T. Price - March 19, 2012
Marie Howe - February 16, 2012
I'll Drown My Book Reading - February 10, 2012
Katherine Larson - February 2, 2012
Jeffrey Yang - February 2, 2012
Jeffrey Yang - February 1, 2012
David Rivard - January 19, 2012
David Rivard - January 17, 2012
Roger Bonair-Agard - April 28, 2011
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop - March 5, 2011
Ana Božičević - February 24, 2011
Kazim Ali - February 24, 2011
Rusty Morrison - February 10, 2011
Fred Moten - February 10, 2011
Ann Cummins - January 20, 2011
David Wojahn - January 20, 2011
New Poets of the American West Reading - January 6, 2011
Franz Wright - April 23, 2010
Liza Porter - March 25, 2010
Jonathan Rothschild - March 14, 2010
Michael Palmer - March 6, 2010
Jeffrey Miller - March 6, 2010
Andrew Zawacki - March 6, 2010
Ed Foster - March 6, 2010
Tedi López Mills - March 6, 2010
Andrew Joron - March 6, 2010
Dan Beachy-Quick - February 19, 2010
Dan Beachy-Quick - February 18, 2010
Sinan Antoon - February 4, 2010
John D'Agata - February 2, 2010
Ron Silliman - January 30, 2010
Jane Miller - January 29, 2010
Philip Jenks - January 22, 2010
Philip Jenks - January 21, 2010
Akilah Oliver - January 21, 2010
Brandon Shimoda - January 21, 2010
Juliana Spahr - October 23, 2009
Heather McHugh - April 24, 2009
Heather McHugh - April 23, 2009
Denis Johnson - April 9, 2009
Ofelia Zepeda - March 15, 2009
Peter Gizzi - February 26, 2009
Stephanie Balzer - February 5, 2009
Boyer Rickel - January 22, 2009
W.S. Merwin - April 17, 2008
Taha Muhammad Ali - March 27, 2008
María Elena Wakamatsu - March 6, 2008
Jon Anderson - March 1, 2008
Peter Turchi - February 19, 2008
Francisco X. Alarcón - February 7, 2008
Steve Orlen - January 17, 2008
Jason Brown - January 17, 2008
Harryette Mullen - March 31, 2007
Deborah Bernhardt - March 22, 2007
Catherine Wing - March 22, 2007
Sawako Nakayasu - March 22, 2007
Carolyn Forché - February 15, 2007
Camille T. Dungy - April 19, 2006
Heriberto Yépez - April 19, 2006
Richard Siken - April 19, 2006
Rafael Campo - April 12, 2006
George Saunders - March 29, 2006
Nathalie Handal - March 22, 2006
Nikki Giovanni - February 26, 2006
Yoko Tawada - February 10, 2006
Cal Bedient - January 25, 2006
Michael Schmidt - April 19, 2005
Regie Gibson and Reginald Gibbons - April 16, 2005
Michel Deguy - April 11, 2005
Semezdin Mehmedinovic - March 23, 2005
Karen Brennan - March 9, 2005
Jim Simmerman - March 9, 2005
Dolores Kendrick - February 23, 2005
Gary Copeland Lilley - February 2, 2005
David Dominguez - February 2, 2005
Heriberto Yépez - April 25, 2004
Heriberto Yépez - April 24, 2004
Sheila E. Murphy - April 13, 2004
Boyer Rickel - April 6, 2004
Tedi López Mills and Wendy Burk - March 31, 2004
Laura Tohe - February 25, 2004
Peter Sacks - April 23, 2003
Fanny Howe - March 26, 2003
Bharati Mukherjee - February 26, 2003
Clark Blaise - February 26, 2003
Homero Aridjis - February 5, 2003
Ellen Bryant Voigt: A Lecture on Syntax - January 30, 2003
Ellen Bryant Voigt - January 29, 2003
Ann Lauterbach - March 20, 2002
Carolyn Forché - March 7, 2002
Diana García - February 27, 2002
Jason Brown - February 6, 2002
Paul Muldoon - January 30, 2002
Quincy Troupe - April 27, 2001
Billy Collins - March 8, 2001
Billy Collins - March 7, 2001
Anne Carson - February 21, 2001
Carl Dennis - February 8, 2001
Terese Svoboda - January 31, 2001
Aurelie Sheehan - January 24, 2001
Joshua Clover - April 26, 2000
Marilyn Hacker - March 29, 2000
Aleida Rodríguez - March 29, 2000
Dana Levin - March 1, 2000
Louise Glück - March 1, 2000
Fenton Johnson - February 9, 2000
Daryl Ross Begay - January 26, 2000
Leslie Marmon Silko - January 26, 2000
Terry Tempest Williams - April 6, 1999
Nancy Eimers - March 24, 1999
William Olsen - March 24, 1999
Luis Alberto Urrea - March 9, 1999
Bei Dao - March 3, 1999
Annick Smith - March 2, 1999
Junot Díaz - February 17, 1999
Jorie Graham - February 3, 1999
August Kleinzahler - January 27, 1999
Rosario Ferré - April 8, 1998
Rick Bass - March 11, 1998
Thomas Centolella - February 18, 1998
Al Young - April 23, 1997
C. K. Williams - April 16, 1997
Richard Nelson - March 12, 1997
Marie Howe - March 5, 1997
Bob Perelman - January 29, 1997
Rodney Jones - April 10, 1996
Pat Mora - March 27, 1996
Homero Aridjis - March 22, 1996
Terry Tempest Williams - March 20, 1996
Cyrus Cassells - March 6, 1996
Robert Boswell - February 22, 1996
Alison Moore - February 14, 1996
Gustaf Sobin - February 7, 1996
Nora Marks Dauenhauer - January 24, 1996
Jim Simmerman - April 26, 1995
Heather McHugh - April 19, 1995
Tony Hoagland - March 1, 1995
Luis J. Rodriguez - February 15, 1995
Patricia Hampl - January 25, 1995
Diane Glancy - April 27, 1994
Rosemary Catacalos - April 6, 1994
Suzanne Gardinier - March 30, 1994
Beckian Fritz Goldberg - February 2, 1994
Greg Pape - January 19, 1994
Leroy V. Quintana and Estela Portillo Trambley - May 1, 1993
Steve Orlen - April 21, 1993
Joy Harjo - April 7, 1993
Leslie Marmon Silko - April 7, 1993
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - March 24, 1993
Marilynne Robinson - March 3, 1993
Lynn Emanuel - February 10, 1993
W. S. Di Piero - January 20, 1993
Nora Naranjo Morse - April 20, 1992
Felipe S. Molina - April 13, 1992
Galway Kinnell - April 8, 1992
Leslie Marmon Silko - April 6, 1992
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - April 1, 1992
N. Scott Momaday - March 30, 1992
Greg Sarris - March 9, 1992
Roberta J. Hill - March 2, 1992
Ofelia Zepeda - February 24, 1992
Toi Derricotte - February 19, 1992
Luci Tapahonso - February 17, 1992
Nora Marks Dauenhauer - February 10, 1992
Simon J. Ortiz - February 3, 1992
Daniel Lopez - January 27, 1992
Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig - April 27, 1991
Alan Dugan - April 27, 1991
Aleksandr Yudakhin - April 17, 1991
Lorna Dee Cervantes - March 27, 1991
Phillip Lopate - March 6, 1991
Yusef Komunyakaa - February 6, 1991
Linda Hogan - April 11, 1990
Maxine Kumin - March 21, 1990
Mary Elsie Robertson - February 14, 1990
Vivian Gornick - February 14, 1990
Li-Young Lee - February 7, 1990
Gary Soto - January 31, 1990
W.S. Merwin - January 17, 1990
Paolo Valesio - April 2, 1989
Ishmael Reed - March 29, 1989
Adrienne Rich - March 22, 1989
Adam Zagajewski - March 8, 1989
Leslie Scalapino - February 22, 1989
Miguel M. Méndez with Valerie Martínez - February 15, 1989
Carolyn Kizer - January 25, 1989
Tim O'Brien - April 13, 1988
Tomas Tranströmer - April 10, 1988
Miroslav Holub - March 30, 1988
Denise Chávez - March 29, 1988
Nancy Mairs - March 9, 1988
Barbara Anderson - March 2, 1988
N. Scott Momaday - February 24, 1988
Rolando Hinojosa - February 18, 1988
Pat Mora - February 9, 1988
Charles Bernstein - February 3, 1988
Sandra Cisneros - January 20, 1988
Ann H. Zwinger - November 4, 1987
James Merrill - April 1, 1987
Byrd Baylor - March 25, 1987
Heather McHugh - February 25, 1987
Bill Knott - February 18, 1987
Richard Elman - February 11, 1987
Naomi Shihab Nye - January 28, 1987
Sharon Olds - April 16, 1986
Tomas Tranströmer - April 9, 1986
James Tate - March 5, 1986
Lynn Luria-Sukenick - February 12, 1986
Grace Paley - January 30, 1986
Ai - March 6, 1985
Ellen Bryant Voigt - February 20, 1985
Steve Orlen - February 13, 1985
Jon Silkin - January 30, 1985
Denise Levertov - April 14, 1984
Henry Carlile - April 11, 1984
Peter Matthiessen - March 28, 1984
Mona Van Duyn - February 29, 1984
Jon Anderson - February 15, 1984
Tillie Olsen - April 8, 1983
Stephen Dobyns - March 9, 1983
Richard Marius - March 4, 1983
Gerald Stern - February 9, 1983
Linda Pastan - January 26, 1983
Paul Zimmer - January 24, 1983
N. Scott Momaday - April 13, 1982
Leslie Ullman - April 7, 1982
Dannie Abse - March 31, 1982
Robert Houston - March 24, 1982
Tim O'Brien - March 2, 1982
William Stafford - February 3, 1982
Donald Justice - April 29, 1981
Linda Gregg - April 22, 1981
Faye Kicknosway - April 22, 1981
Alan Feldman - April 22, 1981
John Gardner - April 8, 1981
Richard Exner - March 26, 1981
Maxine Kumin - February 4, 1981
Robert Penn Warren - April 23, 1980
Vincent Buckley - April 16, 1980
Grace Paley - March 12, 1980
Richard Shelton - March 4, 1980
Patricia Hampl - January 30, 1980
Brenda Hillman - April 23, 1979
David Ignatow - April 10, 1979
Raymond Carver - March 15, 1979
Stanley Elkin - February 8, 1979
Ira Sadoff - January 25, 1979
Roger Weingarten - April 20, 1978
Charles Wright - April 13, 1978
Kent Nelson - April 6, 1978
Louise Glück - March 16, 1978
Stephen Dunn - November 4, 1977
Wallace Stegner - April 14, 1977
W.S. Merwin - March 22, 1977
Steve Orlen - March 9, 1977
William Kloefkorn - February 23, 1977
Pamela Stewart - February 9, 1977
Norman Dubie - February 9, 1977
Edward Abbey - February 2, 1977
Tess Gallagher - January 19, 1977
John Logan - April 28, 1976
Seamus Heaney - March 30, 1976
Joseph Brodsky - February 20, 1976
William H. Gass - February 4, 1976
Peter Wild - January 29, 1976
Simon J. Ortiz - February 26, 1975
W.S. Merwin - February 12, 1975
Richard Hugo - January 22, 1975
Rita Garitano - January 16, 1975
George Garrett - April 24, 1974
Robert Pack - April 10, 1974
Tomas Tranströmer - February 26, 1974
Adrienne Rich - January 31, 1974
May Swenson - January 22, 1974
Michael S. Harper - April 4, 1973
Robert C. S. Downs - March 28, 1973
Sandra McPherson - March 21, 1973
Robert Houston - March 13, 1973
Richard Wilbur - March 7, 1973
James Wright - February 21, 1973
Steve Orlen - January 31, 1973
William Matthews - January 24, 1973
William Stafford - May 9, 1972
C. K. Williams - April 26, 1972
Richard Eberhart - March 21, 1972
Philip Levine - March 15, 1972
Marvin Bell - February 21, 1972
Lawson Fusao Inada - February 2, 1972
Mark Strand - May 4, 1971
Ruth Stephan - April 14, 1971
John Ciardi - March 22, 1971
David Ignatow - February 17, 1971
Paul Zimmer - February 3, 1971
Neil Claremon - January 6, 1971
Steve Orlen - April 15, 1970
Donald Justice - April 9, 1970
Robert Mezey - February 18, 1970
Jon Anderson - February 13, 1970
Richard Shelton - January 7, 1970
Allen Ginsberg - April 30, 1969
Owen Dodson - March 25, 1969
John Haines - March 5, 1969
Gary Snyder - February 26, 1969
W.S. Merwin - January 14, 1969
Galway Kinnell - March 20, 1968
William Stafford - February 21, 1968
Thomas Kinsella - February 7, 1968
David Wagoner - January 10, 1968
George Reavey - April 19, 1967
John Crowe Ransom - March 15, 1967
Louise Bogan - February 15, 1967
Marguerite Young - February 16, 1966
Reed Whittemore - January 12, 1966
John Newlove - March 17, 1965
Ruth Stephan - April 23, 1964
John Frederick Nims - April 3, 1964

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