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Arizona State Prisoners read their work

June 16 , 2008
Arizona State
Prisoners
read their work.

 

Excerpt from Jeffrey Wood's "Hocus Pocus":
 
The hypnotic pendulum ticks on.
What tick killed the wooly
Mammoths or the flightless birds?
Are you listening to the planet speak
Homo sapiens?

Frances Richey
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May 9, 2008
Frances Richey
reads “Waiting,” a poem from her collection, “The Warrior."
Robert Hass
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April 30, 2008
Robert Hass
shares two of his poems, “September, Inverness” and “The World as Will and Representation.”
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