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  Joanne Kyger and Robert Adamson: March 6, 2015

  The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and Australian poet Robert Adamson, reading primarily from new works: Kyger's On Time (City Lights Books, 2015) and Adamson's Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015.)

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  Robert Adamson: March 5, 2015

  The Poetry Center presents Robert Adamson reading from The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions, 2006) and Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015). Adamson responds to questions from the audience and talks extensively about his adolescent incarceration and discovery of poetry while in prison.

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  Yusef Komunyakaa with Hafez Modirzadeh: October 18, 2013

  The Poetry Center, in collaboration with The Green Arcade and with gratitude to our hosts, McRoskey Mattress Co., presents Yusef Komunyakaa reading his poetry, with composer, musician and teacher Hafez Modirzadeh on saxophone, improvising around the Charlie Parker songbook. Komunyakaa, on a brief visit from New York City, reads poems included in his then-just released book, Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Wesleyan University Press, 2013; various of his "jazz poems" having been incorporated into the libretto for an Australian Broadcasting Corporation-sponsored work, with music by composer Sandy Evans, included on a CD with the book), and drawing from the breadth of poems as included in Pleasure Dome: New Collected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001).