Recorded at the home of Peter Reading in October, 2010.

Peter Reading is one of Britain’s most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious, and heartbreaking. In Spring 2001, the Lannan Foundation traveled to England and recorded Peter Reading reading his entire body of poetry to that time, i.e. through the collection Faunal. In 2010 the Lannan Foundation commissioned British videographer Pamela Robertson-Pearce to record Mr. Reading reading from his subsequent collections at his home in Ludlow, Shropshire, England. The Lannan Foundation is delighted to bring the voice and work of Peter Reading to a world-wide audience.

Civil, now out of print, is included in Collected Poems Volume III: Poems 1997-2003 (2003, Bloodaxe).

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Length: 8:21; Size: 95 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 16, 2011.

John D'Agata published his first book, Halls of Fame, a collection of lyric essays, in 2001 and Annie Dillard called it "A daring, utterly original book by a young writer of rare intelligence and artistry... With wit and finesse, and writing that's as much poetry as it is prose, D'Agata is redefining the modern American essay." He has since edited two essay collections, The Next American Essay (2002) and The Lost Origins of the Essay (2009) and his creative nonfiction book, About a Mountain, was published in 2010. His most recent book is The Lifespan of a Fact, published in 2012, and is a collaboration with Jim Fingal, the fact-checker, who worked on a D'Agata essay originally slated to publish in 2003. D'Agata holds MFAs in both nonfiction and poetry and teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he lives.

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Length: 28:51; Size: 350 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 16, 2011.

John D'Agata published his first book, Halls of Fame, a collection of lyric essays, in 2001 and Annie Dillard called it "A daring, utterly original book by a young writer of rare intelligence and artistry... With wit and finesse, and writing that's as much poetry as it is prose, D'Agata is redefining the modern American essay." He has since edited two essay collections, The Next American Essay (2002) and The Lost Origins of the Essay (2009) and his creative nonfiction book, About a Mountain, was published in 2010. His most recent book is The Lifespan of a Fact, published in 2012, and is a collaboration with Jim Fingal, the fact-checker, who worked on a D'Agata essay originally slated to publish in 2003. D'Agata holds MFAs in both nonfiction and poetry and teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he lives.

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Length: 1:03:14; Size: 768 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 11 December 2002.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, considered Germany's most important living poet, is also a highly regarded essayist, journalist, dramatist, editor, publisher, and translator. Born in 1929 in Bavaria, he was educated in German universities and also the Sorbonne in Paris. His many awards include the Nuremberg Cultural Prize and the Pasolini Prize. The most recent volume of his poems to be translated (by Michael Hamburger) into English is Kiosk, published in 1997.

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Length: 33:34; Size: 387 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 11 December 2002.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, considered Germany's most important living poet, is also a highly regarded essayist, journalist, dramatist, editor, publisher, and translator. Born in 1929 in Bavaria, he was educated in German universities and also the Sorbonne in Paris. His many awards include the Nuremberg Cultural Prize and the Pasolini Prize. The most recent volume of his poems to be translated (by Michael Hamburger) into English is Kiosk, published in 1997.

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Length: 38:00; Size: 438 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 15, 2010.

Jimmy Santiago Baca is a poet, memoirist, activist, and native New Mexican. His books include a memoir, A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet, and the story collection, The Importance of a Piece of Paper. "Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way." His recent novel, A Glass of Water, tells the story of Casimiro and Nopal who carry with them the promise of a new beginning as young immigrants having made the nearly deadly journey across the border from Mexico. The Dallas Morning News says, "An insistent theme of redemption blends with an unexpected lyrical tenderness, confirming that even in the harsh landscape of his stories, Mr. Baca sees a horizon of hope."

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Length: 27:33; Size: 319 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 15, 2010.

Jimmy Santiago Baca is a poet, memoirist, activist, and native New Mexican. His books include a memoir, A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet, and the story collection, The Importance of a Piece of Paper. "Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way." His recent novel, A Glass of Water, tells the story of Casimiro and Nopal who carry with them the promise of a new beginning as young immigrants having made the nearly deadly journey across the border from Mexico. The Dallas Morning News says, "An insistent theme of redemption blends with an unexpected lyrical tenderness, confirming that even in the harsh landscape of his stories, Mr. Baca sees a horizon of hope."

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Length: 54:00; Size: 624 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 14 November 2001.

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and educated at Stanford University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His novels include A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by the New York Times and the Los Angles Times. He currently lives in New York City.

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Length: 27:23; Size: 316 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 14 November 2001.

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and educated at Stanford University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His novels include A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by the New York Times and the Los Angles Times. He currently lives in New York City.

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Length: 29:41; Size: 342 MB

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 26 September 2001.

Billy Collins' poetry books are Picnic, Lightning; The Art of Drowning; Questions about Angels, which was a National Poetry Series winner; and The Apple that Astonished Paris. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Mr. Collins, who lives in New York and teaches at Lehman College, has been the United States Poet Laureate.

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Length: 27:38; Size: 318 MB

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