Stephen Dunn - October 30, 1985

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Stephen Dunn

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Stephen Dunn opens with "Under the Black Oaks," the poem he had most recently written at the time of this reading. Dunn reads poems from throughout his career, often on the theme of family, including a poem about losing his mother, an atheist's parenting dilemmas as his daughter moves toward Christianity, and an ode to the sister he never had.

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Introduction by Lois Shelton. Recording skips briefly several times, and cuts out briefly at 47:16.

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