The Department of Literary Arts Contemporary Writers Reading Series brings to the Brown campus distinguished and experimental writers, providing access to significant voices in contemporary literature.

Participating Authors

Note: All Writers Online audio files require RealPlayer, a free mp3 player.

Laynie Brown

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 10/07/04 | Run time: 26:31]
• from "Acts of Levitation" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 10/07/04 | Run time: 9:02]

Ernesto Mestre-Reed

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 10/30/04 | Run time: 25:46]
• from "The Second Death of Unica Aveyano" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 10/30/04 | Run time: 11:48]

Joan Retallack

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 11/09/04 | Run time: 33:13]
• from "Memnoir" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 11/09/04 | Run time: 9:41]

Lisa Robertson

• "First Walk" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/25/04 | Run time: 11:41]

Susan Stewart

• “The Flight” / “Whisper” / “The Memory of Happiness in a Time of Misery” / “The Survival of Icarus” / “Shadow Georgics: Preface” / “Apple” / “Bees” (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 09/24/04 | Run time: 10:39]
• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 09/29/04 | Run time: 34:11]

C.D. Wright

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 10/01/94 | Run time: 39:37]