CSU Poetry Center 12/8/22 CSU Poetry Center 12/8/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (AJA COUCHOIS DUNCAN)

“When I wrote Vestigial, I was listening to the future. But the future is the present too.”

CSU Poetry Center 11/18/22 CSU Poetry Center 11/18/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (MARY BIDDINGER)

“When I finish writing a book I feel like I'm hastily moving out of an apartment.”

CSU Poetry Center 10/28/22 CSU Poetry Center 10/28/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (ADAM FELL)

“Community and tenderness flowed in between the cracks in the apocalyptic façade.”

CSU Poetry Center 10/19/22 CSU Poetry Center 10/19/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (TIRZAH GOLDENBERG)

“…much of my work is concerned with things you can hold (or at least imagine holding) in your hands: archaeological remains, heirlooms, a fig (or figment), a faulty bellows . . .”

CSU Poetry Center 10/12/22 CSU Poetry Center 10/12/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (JORDAN STEMPLEMAN)

“I had to listen through the language of others, even the ‘me’ of my older work, to stare into the rupture.”

CSU Poetry Center 10/3/22 CSU Poetry Center 10/3/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ)

“…there’s a lot of death in this book, and I don’t know what it’s like to be dead…”

CSU Poetry Center 9/27/22 CSU Poetry Center 9/27/22

AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE)

“But when people start thinking of these small presses as where the interesting, exciting things are happening, as more like record labels in the 90s, where ideas about what poetry can do and where different poetics are taking shape(s) and influencing discourse, then I think that will yield better understandings…”