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.

John Ashbery

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 02/26/09 | Run time: 41:29]
• 5 Poems - "Boundary Issues"/ "Chair Rental" / "Default Mode" / "Episode" / "The Foreseeable" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 02/26/09 | Run time: 06:55]

Laynie Brown

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/11/09 | Run time: 43:06]
• “Protector #1”/ “Protector #2: Your Personal Amulet”/ “Love Sonnet to Light”/ “Ascidian Heart”/ “Palimpsest”/ “Interlude”/ “Sentencing” (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/11/09 | Run time: 8:14]

Peter Carey

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/05/09 | Run time: 40:21]
• from "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/05/09 | Run time: 18:16]

Nicholas Mosley

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/17/09 | Run time: 1:02:57]
• from "Public House" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/17/09 | Run time: 35:26]

Raul Zurita

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 02/19/09 | Run time: 31:30]
• "Dream 354" / "Dream 35" (read with Forrest Gander) (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 02/19/09 | Run time: 7:24]