Poetry Readings-LA Times Festival of Books, Saturday 21 April

An excerpt from "MATING RITUALS" by Kelli Anne Noftle

You feel listless as underthings
unravel. At the bottom
of an ocean, near her neck
where the collar dips—some of the habits
you acquire are ancient.

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Poetry Stage Schedule
LA Times Festival of Books
Saturday, 21 April

10:00 am Katherine Larson reads from “Radial Symmetry”
10:30 am Timothy Donnelly reads from “The Cloud Corporation”
11:00 am Ellen Dore Watson reads from “Dogged Hearts: Poems”
11:30 am Kevin Prufer reads from “In A Beautiful Country”
12:00 pm Twentieth-Century Poet Commemorative Stamp First Day of Issue Ceremony
1:00 pm Campbell McGrath reads from “In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems”
1:30 pm Bruce Smith reads from “Devotions”
2:00 pm Linda Norton reads from “The Public Gardens”
2:30 pm Carl Phillips reads from “Double Shadow”
3:00 pm Carol Ann Davis reads from “Atlas Hour”
3:30 pm Henri Cole reads from “Touch”
Judith Pacht reads from “Summer Hunger”
4:00 pm Michael Ryan reads from “This Morning: Poems”
4:30 pm Dorothy Barresi reads from “American Fanatics”
Doreen Gildroy reads from “Human Love”
5:00 pm Victoria Chang reads from “Salvinia Molesta”
Michael O’Keefe reads from “Swimming Under My Father”
5:30 pm Kelli Anne Noftle reads from “I Was There for Your Somniloquy” & Performance with Earthwake

Website: http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/program-schedule/

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An excerpt from "Civilization" by Carl Phillips

eventually even hunger
can become a space
to live in. How they made
out of shamelessness something
beautiful, for as long as they could.