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Participating Authors

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Robert Creeley

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/31/98 | Run time: 29:52]
• "Four Days in Vermont" / "For Maggie" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/31/98 | Run time: 1:16]
• "Old Poems" / "Mitch" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/31/98 | Run time: 4:16]

Michael Palmer

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/31/98 | Run time: 30:30]
• “The Metaphysician of Prague” / “Sao Paolo Sighs” / “And Sighs Again” / “The Promises of Glass” (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/31/98 | Run time: 8:24]