The "Responses" series involves poets reading aloud each other's work and offering commentary. This inaugural event featured two accomplished poets as participants.
Speakers
Patrick Rosal
Poet
Author of three full-length poetry collections, including Boneshepherds, which received recognition from the National Book Critics Circle and Academy of American Poets. He has won the Association of...
Jean Valentine
Poet
Contributing to literature for approximately fifty years. Her debut, Dream Barker and Other Poems, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1965. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003...
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