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Amber Flora Thomas Reads at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference 2018

Amber Flora Thomas reads “Self Portrait with Teeth,” published in Third Coast Magazine (2017); “Moment in Which the Self Moves Under Song,” forthcoming in Ecotone (2018); and “The Old Horse” from Connotation Press (2016), at the 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. All three poems appear in Thomas’s new book, Red Channel in the Rupture.

 

Amber Flora Thomas is the recipient of several poetry awards, including the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize. She is the author of Red Channel in the Rupture (2018), The Rabbits Could Sing (2012), and Eye of Water (2005), selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and in NER 39.3.

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

 

 

 

Mid-Week Break

Edgar Kunz Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Edgar Kunz reads “After the Hurricane” (originally published in the Indiana Review) at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Kunz is the author of Tap Out (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in AGNI, New England Review 36.4, Ploughshares, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2015 & Best New Poets 2017. He lives in Oakland, California, and teaches  in the low-residency MFA program at Salve Regina University.

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

Rick Barot Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Mid-Week Break

Image result for rick barotRick Barot reads “Girl Carrying Ladder,” first published in Bennington Review, and “The Grasshopper and the Cricket,” first published in Threepenny Review.

Barot, poetry editor for New England Review, has published three books of poetry: The Darker Fall (2002), Want (2008), and most recently Chord, (2015) recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Chord was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Barot has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. In 2016 he received a poetry fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.

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

Mid-week Break

James Longenbach Reads at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Author James Longenbach reads from his five-part poem “Crocodile” at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. “Crocodile” appeared in the New Yorker and is now part of his newly published collection, Earthling (W. W. Norton).

Longenbach is the author of four other poetry collections, six works of criticism, and numerous essays and reviews. His most recent books are The Virtues of Poetry (Graywolf, 2013), The Iron Key (Norton, 2010), and The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf, 2007). He currently serves as the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

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

 

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