Niki Herd - February 20, 2025

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Niki Herd

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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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Tyler Meier 

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Opening Remarks
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"Bird"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Herd, Niki. "Bird." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 20 January 2020. Web. Accessed 4 March 2025. 

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"The morning of..." (January 20, 2025)
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Uncollected.

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"every summer, as a child, i burned ants…"
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Herd, Niki. The Stuff of Hollywood. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024, pp. 23-26.

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On D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, an original program for the film, and January 6, 2021
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"23. Behind the curtain that screens the porch, Elsie is petting a cat…"
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Herd, Niki. The Stuff of Hollywood. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024, pp. 44-51, 60-61, 66-67, 74-75.

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"In the aubade for the late great show"
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Herd, Niki. The Stuff of Hollywood. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024, p. 95.

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Niki Herd
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Paola Valenzuela
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