Solmaz Sharif read a selection of poetry from her collection Look at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Sharif has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Her poetry has appeared in Granta, New Republic, and Poetry. A former Stegner Fellow, she is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, Look, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

“Look” and “Reaching Guantanamo” first appeared in Look from Graywolf press. All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.