James Wright - February 21, 1973

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
James Wright

This reading takes place the year that James Wright's collection Two Citizens (1973) was published, and Wright reads extensively from that volume. Wright ends his reading with a poem that would be published in The Hudson Review that fall, but would otherwise remain uncollected.

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Introduction and Opening Remarks
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Introduction by Lois Shelton. Opening remarks by James Wright.

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"Prayer to the Good Poet"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"Afternoon and Evening at Ohrid"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"I Wish I May Never Hear of the United States Again"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martins Ferry, Ohio"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"Hotel Lenox"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"The Streets Grow Young"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging Prey"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"Well, What Are You Going to Do?"
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Wright, James Arlington. Two Citizens. New York: Farrar, Strouss, and Giroux, 1973.

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"Two Poems About President Harding: His Death, His Tomb"
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Wright, James Arlington. The Branch Will Not Break. Middletown: Wesleyan, 1963.

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"A Blessing"
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Wright, James Arlington. The Branch Will Not Break. Middletown: Wesleyan, 1963.

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"In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems"
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Wright, James Arlington. Collected Poems. Middletown: Wesleyan, 1971.

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"To Marcel Dupre"
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Wright, James. “To Marcel Dupré, Organist of Saint Sulpice.” The Hudson Review, vol. 26, no. 3, 1973, pp. 508–09. 

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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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The University of Arizona Poetry Center
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