"reach and reel and roll and reap—"

Jeffers, Dixon, Mulvey, Skloot, Celan

Summer Guided Poetry Reading Groups are available!

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WEDNESDAY

6-8 pm EST

May 28, June 25, July 30, August 27

Bert Meyers, Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades, 2023)

Patricia Spears Jones, The Beloved Community (Copper Canyon, 2023)

James Pollock, Durable Goods (Signal Editions, 2023)

Stefanie Marlis, Rife (Sarabande, 1998)

THURSDAY

10 am-12 pm EST

May 29, June 26, July 31, August 28

Peggy Shumaker, Still Water Carving Light (Red Hen, 2025)

Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1990)

Saskia Hamilton, All Souls (Graywolf, 2023)

Tomas Tranströmer, Selected Poems, ed. Robert Hass (Ecco, 1987)

SUNDAY

11 am-1 pm EST

May 25, June 29, July 27, August 24

Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon, 2009)

Katie Peterson, A Piece of Good News (FSG, 2018)

Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1986)

Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter (Arc, 2009)

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Robinson Jeffers:

Melvin Dixon:

Bern Mulvey:

Floyd Skloot:

Paul Celan (tr. from German by Pierre Joris):

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