Pierre Clémenti, A Few Personal Messages, trans. Claire Foster
Ben Watson, Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Brian Teare, Poem Bitten By a Man
Anthony Trollope, Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices
Stephanie Burt, We Are Mermaids
Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
Maria Dermoût, The Ten Thousand Things, trans. Hans Koning
january 2024 reading
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
Joyce Carol Oates, Pursuit
Kyle Schlessinger, Parts of Speech
Peggy Wood, A Splendid Gypsy: John Drew
Douglas Glover, Attack of the Copula Spiders
P.J. Cowlam, Marisa
Andrew Epstein, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Hélio Oiticica, Secret Poetics
Karen Heuler, The Inner City
Gillian White, Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry
Brandon Taylor, Late Americans
december 2023 reading
Connie Scozzaro, Marnie
L.P. Hartley, The Brickfield
Arthur Krystal, Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic
Lindsay Turner, The Upstate
A. Zachary Light, More Sure: Poems and Interruptions
Mark Forster, Do It Tomorrow (R)
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible
R.A. Lafferty, Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Thomas Bernhard, Concrete, trans. David McClintock
Dorian Lynskey, The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984.
Dina-Marie Kulzer, Television Series of the Fifties and Sixties in Interview
Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish
november 2023 reading
Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, trans. Elisabeth JacquetteI
Tim Blanchard, Like Magic in the Streets: Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, The Go-Betweens, The Smiths, The Blue Nile and the End of Romance.
Gary Gutting, A Very Short Introduction to Foucault
Andy Merrifield, Dialectical Urbanism
L.P. Hartley, The Will and the Way
John Yau, Corpse and Mirror
Tyler Stovall, White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
Louise Gluck, Recipes from the Winter Collective
Madeline Bourdouxhe, A Nail, A Rose, trans. Faith Evans
october 2023 reading
James Tate, Shroud of the Gnome
R. Howard Bloch, One Toss of the Dice: How a Poem Made Us Modern
Eva Meijer, The Limits of My Language, trans. Antoinette Fawcett
RJ Smith, Chuck Berry: An American Life
L.P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda
Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, The Empire of Depression: A New History
Ross Feld, Guston in Time
Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English
Beth Pickens, Make Your Art No Matter What