The Readings By Writers Archives

Pam Houston

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

March 26, 2020

Santee Frazier

Aurum

April 13, 2020

Ginger Gaffney

Half Broke

April 30, 2020

Janie Brown

Radical Acts of Love: How we find hope at the end of life

May 28, 2020

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Bonnie Tsui

Why We Swim

June 25, 2020

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Mark Doty

What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

July 23, 2020

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Jake Skeets

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

August 20, 2020

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Nick Flynn

This Is The Night Our House Will Catch Fire

September 24, 2020

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Luis Alberto Urrea

Faculty Reading

Tomales Bay Workshop

October 21, 2020

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Terry Tempest Williams

Erosion

October 29, 2020

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Charles Baxter

The Sun Collective

December 11, 2020

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Rachel Swearingen

How To Walk On Water

January 28, 2021

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Paul Lisicky

Later: My Life Spent at the Edge of the World

April 2, 2020

Katie Peterson

A Piece of Good News

April 20, 2020

Cynthia Newberry Martin 

Tidal Flats

May 7, 2020

Black American Voices

Ross Gay, Claudia Rankine, Saeed Jones, Danez Smith, Terrance Hayes, Rick Laurentiis, Camille Dungy & Nicole Sealey

June 4, 2020

Craig Childs

Virga & Bone

July 2, 2020

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Stephen Graham Jones

The Only Good Indians

July 30, 2020

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Becky Mandelbaum

The Brightside Sanctuary for Animals

August 27, 2020

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Suzanne Roberts

Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel

October 8, 2020

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Paul Lisicky

Faculty Reading

Tomales Bay Workshop

October 22, 2020

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Toni Jensen

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

November 12, 2020

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Ross Gay

Be Holding: A Poem

December 18, 2020

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Nadia Owusu

Aftershocks

February 18, 2021

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Carl Philips

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

April 6, 2020

Fenton Johnson

At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

April 23, 2020

Kate Wisel

Driving In Cars With Homeless Men

May 14, 2020​

Christina Chiu

Beauty

June 11, 2020

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Emily Wortman-Wunder

Not A Thing To Comfort You

July 9, 2020

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July Westhale

Via Negativa

August 7, 2020

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

September 3, 2020

Pam Houston & Amy Irvine

Air Mail: Letters on Politics, Pandemics and Place

October 15, 2020

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Pam Houston

Faculty Reading

Tomales Bay Workshop

October 22, 2020

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Kelli Jo Ford

Crooked Hallelujah

November 19, 2020

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Abigail Chabitnoy

How To Dress A Fish

January 14, 2021

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Elle Johnson

The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness

February 25, 2021

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Lidia Yuknavitch

Verge: Stories

April 9, 2020

Jericho Brown

The Tradition

April 27, 2020

Carolyn Forché

In the Lateness of the World

May 21, 2020

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John Murillo

Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

June 18, 2020

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Jenny Forrester

Soft Hearted Stories

July 16, 2020

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Laura van den Berg

I Hold A Wolf By The Ears

August 14, 2020

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Mitchell Jackson

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

September 17, 2020

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Samantha Dunn

Faculty Reading

Tomales Bay Workshop

October 21, 2020

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Kaveh Akbar & Tommy Orange

Faculty Reading

Tomales Bay Workshop

October 23, 2020

Maxim Luskutoff

Ruthie Fear

December 3, 2020

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Eric Freeze

Deep Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France

January 21, 2021

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