By Kallie Stahl

Looking for more reads for National Poetry Month? Check out the work of these notable poets featured in past Literary Festival events!

Ross Gay. Photo by Natasha Komoda.

Ross Gay (View Gay’s reading here).

• Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude 
• Bringing the Shovel Down 
• Against Which 

Patricia Smith (View Smith’s reading here).

• Blood Dazzler
• Big Towns, Big Talk

Julia Kasdorf (View Kasdorf’s reading here).

• Sleeping Preacher
• Poetry in America
• Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

Gregory Pardlo (View Pardlo’s reading here).

• Digest

Claudia Rankine (View Rankine’s reading here).

• Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
• Citizen: An American Lyric
• Plot

Colette Bryce. Photo by Phylis Christopher.

Reginald Dwayne Betts (View Betts’ reading here).

• Felon: Poems

Colette Bryce (View Bryce’s reading here).

• Self-Portrait in the Dark
• The Full Indian Rope Trick
• Selected Poems

Explore more Literary Festival readings here. Listen to fellow Wildcats share their favorite poems and original works from previous open mic events here.

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.