Matthew Zapruder - February 29, 2024

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Poetry Center
Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder reads poems from Father's Day (2019) and his forthcoming collection I Love Hearing Your Dreams (2024), many of which center on fatherhood, family life, and writing poetry. He opens and closes the reading with excerpts from his memoir Story of a Poem (2023), focused on the act of drafting and revising a poem.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Joni Wallace

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"I Woke Up in California (First Draft)"
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Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Zapruder, Matthew. Story of a Poem. Los Angeles: The Unnamed Press, 2023, pp. 31-32.

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"Poem for Doom"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"I Met My Wife"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"Father's Day"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"When I Was Fifteen"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"Graduation Day"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"Poem for Passengers"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"The Black Bird"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Father's Day. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

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"I Love Hearing Your Dreams"
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Differs from published version.

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Zapruder, Matthew. Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, vol. 17, no 4, pp. 122-123.

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"It Was Summer. The Wind Blew"
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Zapruder, Matthew. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Edited by Ada Limón. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2024.

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"My Grandmother's Dictionary"
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Zapruder, Matthew. "My Grandmother's Dictionary." The New Yorker, vol. 99, no. 25, 21 August 2023.

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"Two Sleeps"
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Uncollected.

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"Bad Bear"
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Zapruder, Matthew. "Bad Bear." The American Poetry Review, vol. 52, no. 02, March/April 2023. 

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"Poem For Rupi Kaur"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Story of a Poem. Los Angeles: The Unnamed Press, 2023, pp. 108-109.

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Excerpt from "My Life (Second Draft)"
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Zapruder, Matthew. Story of a Poem. Los Angeles: The Unnamed Press, 2023, pp. 74-75.

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Matthew Zapruder
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
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