Episode 36 available on eLink exclusively for AWP members

Title: Academy of American Poets Presents Charles Wright.
Published: 10/19/11
Duration: 0:27:28
Recorded: Taped 02/04/11, Regency Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: A reading featuring readings by an award winning poet, Charles Wright. Presented by the Academy of American Poets. (Tree Swenson, Charles Wright)
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Title: Poets in the Sheep Meadow Fold
Published: 10/12/11
Duration: 1:08:29
Recorded: Taped 02/02/08, Grand Ballroom East, Hilton
Description: Celebrated poets from the catalogue of Sheep Meadow Press, including publisher Stanley Moss, will read from some of their recent works. Poets will include John Ashbery reading his translations of the great, recently deceased, French poet Pierre Martory, Christopher Bakken, Suzanne Gardinier, Hermine Pinson, and Yerra Sugarman.
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Title: Like It's Still Going On: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Reading & Discussion
Published: 10/5/11
Duration: 1:05:45
Recorded: Taped 02/05/11, Delaware Suite Room, Marriott Wardman Park
Description: The Civil War is the single most consequential event in the history of our country, and the single most resonant. Even now, it preoccupies American poets. The panelists will read from their work and discuss the fraught lineage into which they have placed themselves. (Sally Dawidoff, Frank Bidart, Vijay Seshadri, Kevin Young)
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Title: A Reading by Cynthia Ozick & Phillip Lopate
Published: 9/28/11
Duration: 1:08:02
Recorded: Taped 02/02/08, Metropolitan East, Sheraton
Description: Sponsored by The University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Readings by Cynthia Ozick and Phillip Lopate. Introductions by Philip Gerard and Rebecca Lee.
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Title: The Southern Review 75th Anniversary Reading
Published: 9/21/11
Duration: 1:12:32
Recorded: Taped 04/09/10, Centennial Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: Founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren at Louisiana State University, the Southern Review celebrates seventy-five years of publishing the best contemporary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by the world's most accomplished writers. (Jeanne Leiby, David Kirby, Sydney Lea, Steve Almond, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Beth Ann Fennelly)
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Title: Translation as Collaboration / Collaboration as Translation
Published: 9/14/11
Duration: 0:50:35
Recorded: Taped 04/09/10, Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: We will consider the ways in which translation is a collaborative practice, both between the author (living or deceased) and translator and also among co-translators. We will also consider how collaborative work often involves acts of translation. Is collaboration always already translational? Is translation always necessarily collaborative? The panelists work both as translators and poets. They have collaborated variously with one another and will discuss intersections among these projects. (Amaranth Borsuk, Mira Rosenthal, Lara Glenum, Gabriela Jauregui, Kate Durbin)
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Title: A Connoisseur of Waves—Dave Hickey, MacArthur Fellow in Art and Cultural Criticism
Published: 9/7/11
Duration: 0:37:13
Recorded: Taped 04/08/10, Centennial Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: Sponsored by University of Nevada Las Vegas. A world-class writer about art and culture reads from his cutting-edge Connoisseur of Waves, essays on art and democracy. Author of seven books, and recently featured in Newsweek as an iconoclastic voice in contemporary art, Hickey is always engaging, provocative, and highly acclaimed for his mastery of the language. (Douglas Unger, Dave Hickey)
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Title: Moby Dick's Descendants: A Cross-Genre Reading of Works Inspired by the Great American Novel
Published: 8/31/11
Duration: 0:59:57
Recorded: Taped 02/03/11, Diplomat Ballroom
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: Melville’s Moby-Dick or, The Whale, considered by many to be the Great American Novel, has inspired numerous writers over the last 160 years. The three distinguished writers on this panel have each written works in conversation with Melville’s: Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary, Sena Jeter Naslund’s Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel, and Alan Michael Parker’s A Tale of a Whale. These novelists and poets will read and then discuss her/his relationship to the 19th century classic. (Marci Johnson, Alan Michael Parker, Dan Beachy-Quick, Sena Jeter Naslund)
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Title: The PSA Presents: A Reading and Interview with Stephen Dunn
Published: 8/25/11
Duration: 1:05:06
Recorded: Taped 02/03/11, Regency Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Dunn will read his poetry, followed by an interview with Poetry Society of America Programs Director Robert N. Casper.
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Title: Cisneros and Santos Uncensored: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros and John Phillip Santos
Published: 8/17/11
Duration: 1:11:26
Recorded: Taped 02/04/11, Regency Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: Sponsored by the Macondo Writers' Workshop. Two amigos talk about the (very) personal and political. They will say things that they've never said before in public or in print.
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Title: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Poetry Reading
Published: 8/10/11
Duration: 0:57:18
Recorded: Taped 02/04/11, Regency Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: To celebrate Michael Collier's first ten years editing the poetry series at HMH, five of his authors will read. Hudgins will moderate. Michael, a professor at the University of Maryland, also directs the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Under his editorship, the press has produced a National Book Award Finalist, and won three Kingsley Tufts Awards, the Poets' Prize, a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. (Andrew Hudgins, Linda Gregerson, Rodney Jones, Maurice Manning, Leslie Harrison)
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Title: The Past Is Another Country: Writing Historical Fiction
Published: 8/3/11
Duration: 1:13:40
Recorded: Taped 04/10/10, Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: The appeal of combining history and storytelling is evident in the popularity of historical fiction and films. But this is an uneasy union, much debated by historians. Three historical novelists share their ideas on the processes, ethics, and challenges of this genre, including doing research and transforming data intro drama, the ethics of key decision-making processes, and the special challenges of writing historicals set in Non-Western cultures. (Cynthia Mahamdi, Philip Gerard, Ron Hansen)
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Title: A Reading and Conversation with Rita Dove
Published: 7/27/11
Duration: 1:23:33
Recorded: Taped 04/09/10, Centennial Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: Sponsored by The Poetry Foundation. Rita Dove reads from her work. The reading is followed by a conversation with poet Kyle Dargan.
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Title: Writing on the Margins: Community Outreach in Shelters and Correctional Facilities
Published: 7/20/11
Duration: 1:03:34
Recorded: Taped 04/08/10, Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: This panel offers strategies for expanding outreach programs to shelters and correctional facilities. Coordinators from University of Notre Dame, The Denver Writing Project, and Eastern Washington University will speak to the rewards and challenges of working with these traditionally under-served populations, and share procedures for launching similar programs. We share the philosophy that creative writers can affect social change by bringing literature to the margins of our communities. (Christopher Arnold, Nicole Piasecki, Sami Schalk, Ryan Downey, Ross Carper)
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Title: Southern Comfort from a Plastic Cup: A Conversation with Dorianne Laux by Brian Brodeur
Published: 7/13/11
Duration: 32:48
Recorded: This interview occurred at the 2011 AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
Description: Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon, is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award. Laux is also author of Awake; What We Carry, finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; and Smoke. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, will be published by W.W. Norton in February, 2011.
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Title: A Reading and Conversation with Rae Armantrout
Published: 7/6/11
Duration: 1:00:06
Recorded: Taped 02/03/11, Regency Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: Sponsored by Wesleyan University Press. Ron Silliman said, “trying to read a book by Rae Armantrout in a single sitting is like trying to drink a bowl of diamonds. What’s inside is all so shiny & clear & even tiny that it appears perfectly do-able. But the stones are so hard & their edges so chiseled that the instant you begin they’ll start to rip your insides apart.” Join us as Rae reads from Money Shot, her follow up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Versed, also recipient of the NBCC Award, followed by a conversation with poet and critic, Craig Teicher.
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Title: No One Here Ever Wishes You Happiness: A Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil by Brian Brodeur
Published: 6/29/11
Duration: 37:30
Recorded: This interview occurred at the 2011 AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
Description: Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the prize-winning poetry collections, Miracle Fruit and At the Drive-In Volcano and the forthcoming Lucky Fish, all from Tupelo Press. Other awards for her writing include an NEA Fellowship in poetry and the Pushcart Prize. She is Associate Professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she received the Hagan Award and the SUNY-wide Chancellor's Medal.
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Title: The Real and the Imagined: Easing the Boundaries Between Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Published: 6/22/11
Duration: 1:13:48
Recorded: Taped 04/08/10, Centennial Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: (Ofer Ziv, Cornelius Eady, Danzy Senna, Michael Thomas, David Shields) The task of writing one's life into a narrative, fictional and nonfictional, helps with our exploration of personal identity, the search for self, and our understanding of the world. These sharp and humane authors traverse freely from memoir to fiction and poetry. Through their cross-genre investigation we see what is gained and what is lost in writing the narrative from the perspective of each form—and that what ultimately drives the search is imagination itself. Come listen as panelists ease the boundaries of genre, delving into issues of race, poverty, the urban community, marriage, and divorce, while incorporating the past—both theirs and not theirs, both real and imaginary—into their writings.
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Title: A Reading and Conversation with Amy Hempel and Gary Shteyngart
Published: 6/15/11
Duration: 1:21:39
Recorded: Taped 02/05/11, Marriott Ballroom, Marriott Wardman Park
Description: Sponsored by The George Washington University. Amy Hempel is a recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Artists Foundation, and the Academy of Arts and Letters. Her Collected Stories was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, and won the Ambassador Book Award for best fiction of the year. She teaches at Harvard University and Bennington College. Gary Shteyngart’s first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was a national bestseller. He was named to both Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and the New Yorker’s Top 20 Writers Under 40 in 2010. Following the reading, the authors will participate in a live conversation with novelist and critic Thomas Mallon.
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Title: How a Poem Happens: Five Poets Explore How Their Poems Were Made
Published: 6/8/11
Duration: 1:02:23
Recorded: Taped 02/05/11, Regency Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel
Description: Each of the five poets on this panel (Brian Brodeur - moderator, Bob Hicok, Dorianne Laux, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Eric Pankey, Adrian Blevins) will explore the making of one of their poems from genesis to publication. Each poet, who has been featured on the popular weblog How a Poem Happens, will discuss their own process of poetic composition, addressing the following questions: How was this poem initiated? How did it arrive at its final form? Were any principles of technique consciously employed? What is American about this poem? Was it finished or abandoned? For more information, please visit the blog.
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Title: You Still Want the People to Dance: A Conversation with Terrance Hayes by Brian Brodeur
Published: 6/1/11
Duration: 39:52
Recorded: This interview occurred at the 2011 AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
Description: Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, Wind in a Box, and Muscular Music, as well as other books of poetry. Hayes is the recipient of many honors and awards including a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry selection, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a grant from the Guggenheim Foudation.
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Title: A Reading by Junot Díaz
Published: 5/25/11
Duration: 35:13
Recorded: Taped 02/04/11, Marriott Ballroom, Marriott Wardman Park
Description: Sponsored by Georgia College & State University / Arts & Letters. Junot Díaz was born in 1968 in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Díaz has been awarded the Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, the 2002 PEN/Malamud Award, the 2003 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948), and Nancy Allen Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Title: Light, the Common Denominator: A Conversation with Eric Pankey by Brian Brodeur
Published: 4/26/11
Duration: 41:59
Recorded: This interview occurred at the 2011 AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
Description: Eric Pankey, the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University, is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems 1984-2008.
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Title: Borg Poetics: A Conversation with Adrian Blevins by Brian Brodeur
Published: 4/22/11
Duration: 39:27
Recorded: This interview occurred at the 2011 AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
Description: Adrian Blevins’s The Brass Girl Brouhaha won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Blevins is also the recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award and the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction. A new book, Live from the Homesick Jamboree, is just out from Wesleyan. Blevins teaches at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
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Episode 12

Title: Conference 2011 Advice to Grantseekers from the National Endowment for the Arts
Published: 03/11/11
Duration: 0:56:11
Recorded: Taped 02/04/11, Wilson A, B, & C Room, Marriott Wardman Park
Description: Staff members from the Literature Division of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will address your questions and provide a status update on agency policies, programs, and initiatives that can have an impact on individuals and arts organizations. Topics covered will include grant opportunities and their deadlines, eligibility, applying online, the review process, and tips for more effective proposals.
Presenters: Jon Parrish Peede, Amy Stolls
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Title: Conference 2010 A Reading by George Saunders & Etgar Keret, Sponsored by Wilkes University Low Residency MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing in association with Blue Flower Arts
Published: 10/08/10
Duration: 1:08:53
Recorded: Taped 04/09/10, Centennial Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description:A Reading by George Saunders & Etgar Keret.
Presenters: George Saunders, Etgar Keret
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Title: Conference 2010 Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Annual Literary Tribute
Published: 9/24/10
Duration: 1:09:59
Recorded: Taped 04/09/10, Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: UNK hosts the Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Retreat on the Platte Valley, naming participating writers as Literary Crane Fellows annually. Sandhill Cranes have migrated to this spring apex for sixty million years, thus, traditionally, numerous indigenous eco-philosophies and languages, including written, were justly influenced. The regional apex numbers 600,000 arriving birds. Each panelist will speak toward and share their work as a Crane Fellow in this unique regional miracle.
Presenters: Allison Hedge Coke, Sherwin Bitsui, Cristina Eisenberg, Wang Ping, Travis Hedge Coke, Laura Tohe
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Title: Conference 2010 CLMP Keynote Address-Small Press Heaven: Poetics from the Floating World.
Published: 7/12/10
Duration: 46:09
Recorded: Taped 04/08/10, Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency Denver
Description: Performer, professor, editor, cultural activist, and author of over forty books of poetry, Anne Waldman discusses her storied history with independent publishers (with a special-guest musical accompaniment on Japanese bamboo flute!).
Presenters: Jeffrey Lependorf, Anne Waldman
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Title: Conference 2008 Shaping a Short Story Collection
Published: 10/8/09
Duration: 57:14
Recorded: Taped 01/31/08, Grand Ballroom East, Hilton New York Hotel
Description: Short story collections are notoriously hard to get published. Editors complain that collections don't sell. Agents ask for a novel. Magazine articles regularly proclaim that the short story itself is dead. And yet, every year new short story collections come out, win awards, and generate buzz. Some have recurring characters, others are labeled "a novel in stories." Some center on a specific theme, while others are set in a particular location. What makes for a compelling short story collection? What is the best way to arrange the stories? How to develop an arch? The fiction writers on this panel have published one or more short story collections. They will attempt to answer the above questions by sharing their own experiences, discussing their favorite collections, and trying to identify some useful strategies.
Presenters: Ellen Litman, Daphne Kalotay, Deb Olin Unferth, Steve Almond, Brian Evenson
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Title: Conference 2009 Switching Hats: When Poets Write Memoir
Published: 9/17/09
Duration: 00:56:53
Recorded: Taped 02/14/09, Grand Ballroom, Hilton Chicago Hotel
Description: These renowned writers traverse both in the genre of poetry and creative nonfiction. When poets write memoirs, with voices both similar and different to those in their poems, they go deeper into the narrative thread, remembering and telling, using the memoir as different mode of travel through the creative terrain. Please join us on a journey through faith and sexuality, race and addiction, and testimonies from war prisoners in this celebration of courage and versatility.
Participants: Alison Granucci, Nick Flynn, Carolyn Forché, Donald Hall, Honor Moore
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Title: Conference 2009 A Reading and Conversation with Charles Baxter
Published: 9/4/09
Duration: 01:11:52
Recorded: Taped 02/14/09, Grand Ballroom, Hilton Chicago Hotel
Description: A reading with award winning author Charles Baxter followed by a conversation between Charles Baxter and Allen Gee.
Participants: Charles Baxter, Allen Gee
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Title: Conference 2008 The Poetry of George Herbert: Five Takes by Five Poets
Published: 8/13/09
Duration: 01:01:16
Recorded: Taped 01/31/08, Empire Ballroom, Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
Description: Why does a self-effacing cleric of the 17th century continue to be so avidly read? Why does he speak to us today? From experimental to formal, from highly rhetorical to lyrical, from devotional to confessional, Herbert contains multitudes. Five poet-critics examine a range of poetry through the lens of the temporal, the formal, the devotional, the architectural, and the erotic. We intend to propose new readings of five poems to open a doorway to the past and reveal his contemporary relevance.
Participants: David Baker, Linda Gregerson, Carl Phillips, Stanley Plumly, Ann Townsend
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Episode 4

Title: Conference 2007 Freedom to Write? Our Obligation to Protect Expression
Published: 7/11/07
Duration: 0:43:27
Recorded: Taped 3/3/07, Crystal Ballroom, Hilton Atlanta
Description:The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007 brings you Freedom to Write? Our Obligation to Protect Expression. Are writers being silenced around the world? Are our first amendment freedoms at risk here at home? How do current affairs affect the rights of writers to practice their craft? What is the role of self-censorship in a culture of real or imagined threats to freedom of expression? Join PEN America and PEN USA, the two United States centers of PEN for this discussion about the state of the Freedom to Write. International PEN has been defending the rights of writers around the world for eighty-five years.
Moderator: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Related info: For more information, please visit the following sites: PEN American Center & PEN Center USA
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Episode 3

Title: Conference 2007 Keynote Address
Published: 7/03/07
Duration: 0:35:49
Recorded: Taped 3/1/07, Grand Ballroom, Hilton Atlanta
Description:The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007's Keynote Address by Lee Smith: A Life in Books. Sponsored by Georgia College & State University/Arts & Letters/Flannery O'Connor Review
Speaker: Lee Smith
Related info: Look for this address to be printed in the September 2007 issue of The Writers' Chronicle
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Episode 2

Title: Conference 2007 Poetry Extravaganza part 2
Published: 5/30/07
Duration: 0:32:45
Recorded: Taped 3/2/07, Grand Salon, Hilton Atlanta
Description: The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007 brings you Poetry Extravaganza. Poetry Extravaganza was hosted by the Academy of American Poets. The Academy of American Poets presents a reading by four leading American poets. This recording (part 2 of 2) contains readings from Marilyn Hacker and Thomas Lux, and features a closing by Tree Swenson.
Readers: Marilyn Hacker, Thomas Lux
Related info: See podcast episode 1 for more of this event.
Find out more about The Academy of American Poets by visiting their website at: http://www.poets.org/
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Episode 1

Title: Conference 2007 Poetry Extravaganza part 1
Published: 5/22/07
Duration: 0:48:08
Recorded: Taped 3/2/07, Grand Salon, Hilton Atlanta
Description: The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007 brings you Poetry Extravaganza. Poetry Extravaganza was hosted by the Academy of American Poets. The Academy of American Poets presents a reading by four leading American poets. This recording (part 1 of 2) contains readings from David Bottoms and Cornelius Eady, and features an introduction by Tree Swenson.
Readers: David Bottoms, Cornelius Eady
Related info: See podcast episode 2 for more of this event.
Find out more about The Academy of American Poets by visiting their website at: http://www.poets.org/
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