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AWP Podcast — 182 episodes

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#AWP23 Deema Shehabi

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#AWP23 Matt Bell

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#AWP23 Maha Ahmed

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#AWP23 Kristen Millares Young

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#AWP23 Guadalupe Garcia McCall

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#AWP23 Enzo Silon Surin

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#AWP23 V.V. Ganeshanathan

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#AWP23 Chelsea Kern

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#AWP23 Alyson Sinclair

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#AWP23 Neema Avashia

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#AWP21 Day 4, Episode 2

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#AWP21 Day 4, Episode 1

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#AWP21 Day 3, Episode 3

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#AWP21 Day 3, Episode 2

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#AWP21 Day 3, Episode 1

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#AWP21 Day 3, Episode 4

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#AWP21 Day 1, Episode 1

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#AWP21 Day 2, Episode 1

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#AWP21 Day 2, Episode 2

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#AWP21 Day 2, Episode 3

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#AWP20 Day 2

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#AWP20 Day 3

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#AWP20 Day 1

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American Smooth: A Tribute To Rita Dove

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Award-Winning Professional Publications with Preprofessional Staff: Mentorship and Applied Learning in Literary Publishing

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Amplifying Unheard Voices

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Writerism: The Intersection of Community Activism and Writing Within and Beyond the Academy

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Gwendolyn Brooks 100th Anniversary Tribute

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Celebrating the Hurston/Wright Foundation: Twenty-Seven Years of Literary Legacy

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Doing Good Better: Resources for Nonprofit Literary Organizations

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The Imitation Game: Adapting Classic Narratives in Contemporary Literature

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I Did It My Way: Writing Who We Are

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Reclaiming the Past: The Challenge of Understanding Vanished Cultures

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40th Anniversary Reading from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

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Arsenic Icing: Sentiment as Threat in Contemporary American Women's Poetry

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To Sing the Idea of All: Walt Whitman in DC (1863-73)

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The Poet Confronts History: The Art of Research for Creative Writing

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National Monuments: The Poetry of Contested Spaces

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Putting Madness to Work: The Poetics and Politics of Recovery

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Double Bind: Women Writers on Ambition

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Zora's Legacy: Black Women Writing Fiction About the South

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The Art of Reinvention

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A Reading by 2016 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry

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I Told the Paper with the Pencil: How Refugee and Immigrant Teens Find and Share Their Voices Through Writing

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Don't Forget the Day Job: Preparing Creative Writing Graduates for Lifelong Careers

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Contemporary Mythopoetics

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Milkweed Editions Reading

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Writing About Other(ed) Spaces

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Agents Without Borders

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Where Community and Culture Collide: 15 years of the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center

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A Celebration of the Life and Work of Philip Levine

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Adapting to Adaptation: Making the Most of Going Hollywood

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Brazilian Women Writers

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UA Poetry Center Presents: Spectacular Poetics & the Poetry of Spectacle

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Just Saying: A Tribute to Rae Armantrout

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Creative Writing and Resistance in the Classroom: Helping Students Write Social Justice

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Hugo House Literary Series All-Stars

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The Changing Face of Book Publicity: Get the Most from Your Publicist

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On the Dangerous Joy of Writing Outside Your Ethnicity, Gender, Orientation, Age, Etc.

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How Gay Is This Book?: 21st Century Approaches to the LGBTQ Classroom

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Forming Resilient Partnerships: How Literary Nonprofits, Schools, and Individuals Can Collaborate Effectively

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From the Fishouse: A Twelve-Year Anniversary Reading and Celebration

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From MFA to JOB: Making a Living, Making a Difference

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The Ethics of Book Reviewing

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A Reading by LSU Press Poets

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Where We Begin to Revise the Poem

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The Art of Literary Editing

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Three Decades, Four Poets: Cave Canem Presents Whiting Award Winners

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How to Teach Literary Magazines in the Classroom and Why

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How to Begin After “The End”: Publishing Pros on Turning Your Manuscript into a Book

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Make It New(s): A Reading and Conversation with Jeffrey Brown, Ted Kooser, and Connie Wanek, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press

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The Sonnet: Not Just for Men in Tights

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Disappearance and Forgetting: Geeshie Wiley and Last Kind Words Blues, A Lecture by Greil Marcus, Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation

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The Pedagogical Push: Post-Graduation Transition to Being an Adjunct

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Neglected American Masters

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T.C. Boyle, Ron Carlson, and Susan Straight: Rewriting the West, Sponsored by Red Hen Press

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How I Taught Then, How I Teach Now

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The Other Track: MFAs in the Book Business

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A Reading and Conversation with Vijay Seshadri and Arthur Sze, Sponsored by Graywolf Press and Kundiman

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From Rent Parties to Kickstarter: Toward a Democratic Patronage of Poetry

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The Art of the Art of Writing

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Teaching: The Life of Poetry and Muriel Rukeyser

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Literary Arts Institute 18th Anniversary Reading

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What We Hate: Editorial Dos and Don'ts

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Puzzle and Mystery: Orchestrating the Known and the Unknown

86

Women of Copper Canyon Press: A Reading and Discussion

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Nonviolence in the Creative Writing Workshop

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U & I: Incorporating Famous Folks as Metaphor in Memoir

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A Reading and Conversation with Lily King, Anthony Marra, and Jayne Anne Phillips, Sponsored by National Book Critics Circle

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New Trends in Literary Publishing

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Second Sight: Teaching Revision Skills in the Workshop

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Literature and Hip Hop: An Investigation, Sponsored by Rain Taxi Review of Books

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Joshua Ferris and Dinaw Mengestu: A Reading and Conversation

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Striving for Balance Between Language and Prejudice in Teaching Writing

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The Art of the Encounter: Structuring Short Fiction

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The Poem as a Bodily Thing

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Women Writers of the American West: Definitions and Readings

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Preparing Students of Color for the MFA: Advice, Reflections, and Methodologies

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From Page to Stage: How to Engage with an Audience

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Finding Voice with Roxane Gay, Pablo Medina, and Michael Thomas, Sponsored by Grove/Atlantic Press

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Charles Wright at 80: A Celebration of Poetry and Teaching

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The Meridel Le Sueur Essay: Sixteen Years of <i>Water~Stone Review</i>

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Rejection! Everything You Always Wanted to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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Four Weddings and an Inauguration: The Occasional Poem

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Argonaut, Citizen, Empathy, Inoculation: New Nonfiction

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Image & Idea: Rachel Kushner & Colm Tóibín, a Reading and Conversation, Sponsored by The Center for Fiction

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A Reading and Conversation with Ben Fountain and Amy Tan, Sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle

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A Reading and Conversation with David Guterson and Erik Larson, Sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and Seattle Arts & Lectures

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A Reading and Conversation with Gish Jen and Tobias Wolff, Sponsored by the Oregon State University School of Writing, Literature, and Film

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Author & Editor: The Relationship that Builds a Book

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Natalie Diaz, Lucia Perillo, and Dean Young: Reading and Conversation, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press

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Song of the Reed: The Poetry of Rumi, Sponsored by Poets House

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A Reading and Conversation with Chris Abani and Chang-rae Lee

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Academy of American Poets Presents Lucie Brock-Broido and Anne Carson

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Illness as Muse: Ten Years of the Bellevue Literary Review

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A Tribute to Seamus Heaney

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Andre Dubus III & Edith Pearlman: A Reading & Conversation, Sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation

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PSA Presents: A Reading and Conversation with C.K. Williams

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Flash Fiction: How and Why to Teach It

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Language at the Breaking Point

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Charting Unmarked Terrain: Fiction at the Borderland

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A Reading and Conversation with Alice Notley, Sponsored by Wesleyan University Press

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The Need to Speak: Writing the Political Poem

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An Interview with Jennifer Egan by Jessica Anthony

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What Is Criticism? With NBCC Winners and Finalists

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PSA Presents: A Reading and Conversation with Mary Jo Bang and Ed Roberson

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A Reading and Conversation with Luis J. Rodriguez and Dagoberto Gilb, Sponsored by Macondo Writers' Workshop

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2013 Keynote, A Conversation Between Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott, Moderated by Rosanna Warren

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An Interview with Carl Phillips by Brian Brodeur

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Literature and Evil, Sponsored by The Center for Fiction

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A Reading and Conversation with Eileen Myles & Monica Youn, Sponsored by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

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An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon by Jessica Anthony

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Political Poetry: America and Abroad

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Who Doesn't Want to Be Popular?: Adventures in Teaching With, For, Around, and Through Commercial Fiction

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An Interview with Claudia Emerson by Brian Brodeur

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New Prose from Northwestern University: A Reading

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Page Meets Stage. Sponsored by Blue Flower Arts

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An Interview with Luis Urrea by Jessica Anthony

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Academy of American Poets Presents Nikky Finney and Lyn Hejinian

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Finding Home&mdash;Immigrant Voices in American Literature

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An Interview with Kathleen Graber by Brian Brodeur

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A Reading and Conversation with Jaimy Gordon and Rebecca Skloot

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Nikki Giovanni: A Cave Canem Legacy Conversation

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National Book Critics Circle Celebrates Award-Winning Authors

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A Reading and Conversation with U.K. and U.S. Poets Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Philip Levine, Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation

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2012 Keynote Address by Margaret Atwood

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Academy of American Poets Presents Charles Wright.

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Poets in the Sheep Meadow Fold

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Like It's Still Going On: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Reading & Discussion

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A Reading by Cynthia Ozick & Phillip Lopate

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The Southern Review 75th Anniversary Reading

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Translation as Collaboration / Collaboration as Translation

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A Connoisseur of Waves&mdash;Dave Hickey, MacArthur Fellow in Art and Cultural Criticism

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Moby Dick's Descendants: A Cross-Genre Reading of Works Inspired by the Great American Novel

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The PSA Presents: A Reading and Interview with Stephen Dunn

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Cisneros and Santos Uncensored: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros and John Phillip Santos

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Poetry Reading

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The Past Is Another Country: Writing Historical Fiction

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A Reading and Conversation with Rita Dove

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Writing on the Margins: Community Outreach in Shelters and Correctional Facilities

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Southern Comfort from a Plastic Cup: A Conversation with Dorianne Laux by Brian Brodeur

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A Reading and Conversation with Rae Armantrout

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No One Here Ever Wishes You Happiness: A Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil by Brian Brodeur

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The Real and the Imagined: Easing the Boundaries Between Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

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A Reading and Conversation with Amy Hempel and Gary Shteyngart

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How a Poem Happens: Five Poets Explore How Their Poems Were Made

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You Still Want the People to Dance: A Conversation with Terrance Hayes by Brian Brodeur

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A Reading by Junot Díaz

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Light, the Common Denominator: A Conversation with Eric Pankey by Brian Brodeur

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Borg Poetics: A Conversation with Adrian Blevins by Brian Brodeur

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Advice to Grantseekers from the National Endowment for the Arts

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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

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Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Annual Literary Tribute

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CLMP Keynote Address-Small Press Heaven: Poetics from the Floating World.

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Shaping a Short Story Collection

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Switching Hats: When Poets Write Memoir

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A Reading and Conversation with Charles Baxter

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The Poetry of George Herbert: Five Takes by Five Poets

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Freedom to Write? Our Obligation to Protect Expression

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2007 Keynote Address by Lee Smith

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Poetry Extravaganza part 2

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Poetry Extravaganza part 1