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This is a recording of a Reading & Conversations event from October 24, 2012.

This is a recording of a Readings and Conversations event from February 6, 2019.

This is a recording of a Readings and Conversations event from February 11, 2015.

This is a recording of a Readings and Conversations event from November 18, 2009.

This is a recording of a In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from January 26, 2005.

This is a recording of a Readings and Conversations event from November 10, 2021.

This a recording of a Poetry Sunday event from Oct 13, 2019.

This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from May 15, 2013.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from September 29, 1999.

This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from March 7, 2018.

This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from October 5, 2021.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from April 10, 2024.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from December 4, 2019.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from November 13, 2019.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from September 11, 2019.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from October 11, 2018.

This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from October 10, 2012.

Some of the most important poets writing today come together to celebrate Copper Canyon Press, an institution that has had an outsized role in sustaining the artform for more than half a century. Marking Copper Canyon Press’s 50th anniversary as an independent publisher dedicated to poetry, this reading by a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Poet Laureate testifies to poetry’s remarkable adaptability. Jericho Brown delivers innovative poetic forms that express the pain—and beauty—of Black and queer life. And Paisley Rekdal presents hybrid text-and-media works that reexamine the history of the West through the stories of the laborers who built it. National Book Award winner and longtime Santa Fe resident Arthur Sze opens the event with a discussion of the history of Lannan Foundation and Copper Canyon Press and their importance to American literature. Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers then introduces the readers, joining all the participants afterward in a closing conversation about poetry’s continued importance as we face the future.  

This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from May 15, 2013.

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from March 14, 2018. Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic. Her works include the story collection Difficult Women and Ayiti, a blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry interwoven into a tale of the Haitian diaspora. In her essay collection Bad Feminist, she writes, “I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off…. Consider me already knocked off.” Gay’s most recent book is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The New York Times writes, “At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.” Gay is the author of the comic series World of Wakanda and is the first African American woman to write for Marvel Comics. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.