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174 pieces
Of Beauty and Suffering: Greece, 1969–1970
They Don’t Want You to Forget Who’s in Charge
The Law
‘The Doomsday Clock’ Sounds Like the Title of a B-Movie
Smithsonian
The Forever Queen: Good-bye to All That
Karel Čapek
My Country, My Cousins
Providence and Prophesy
Hope Wall RVA, 2020–21
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“A White Man’s Party: Selections from The Crisis at the Century Mark”
“The Klu Klux Menace” from The Crisis
“The Vote [. . . a white man's party]” from The Crisis
Guarding George Wallace
A Dream Dependent
Suspicious Activity
My Parents and One Good Line I Wrote at Sixteen
Svarta Bergen
The Black Mountains
Båten—Byn
The Boat — The Village
Addie W. Hunton
Kathryn M. Johnson
Zero, 2018
Darkness at Dawn: The Campus in Crisis
Review by Chelsea Gillenwater | “The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa”
Goodbye, Rosalita
Civilization (All You Can Eat)
Director’s Commentary
Civilization (All You Can Eat)
Playwright’s Notes
Artistic Director’s Foreword
“100 Refutations Published Serially in The Brooklyn Rail” (Table of Contents)
“A Reading by Contributor Name”
“100 Refutations: A Conversation with Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas” Introduction and Table of Contents
“A Conversation with Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas”
A Gun to the Heart of the City
Making Shore
End Times
1918 Suite | Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Director Levy is Taken to Task by Flannagan”
Ru Freeman
“A Reading by Ru Freeman & LeAnne Howe”
Post-Election Morning
Regarding Others’ Pain
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1917 Suite | “A Month, a Year, a Term of Liberty”
1917 Suite | “Calling the Bluff”
1917 Suite | “Mrs. Virginia Bovee’s Affidavit”
1917 Suite | “Excerpts from Mrs. Brannan’s Affidavit”
1917 Suite | “Excerpt of a Letter from Lucy Burns”
1917 Suite | “Excerpts of Lucy Burns’s Paper Scraps”
1917 Suite | “From this Wound, this Ugly Knowledge”
1917 Suite | “The March of the Women”
1917 Suite | “Miss Flanagan in ‘Model Prison’”
1917 Suite | “House Moves for Woman Suffrage”
1917 Suite | Silent Sentinels and the Night of Terror
1917 Suite | Voices from Occoquan: Paper Scraps and Affidavits
1917 Suite | “The President and the Pickets”
1917 Suite | Preface to Jailed for Freedom
1917 Suite | “Suffrage and Sedition”
1917 Suite | “Court Orders Writ to Free 28 Suffs”
1917 Suite | “From the Picket Line to Jail”
1917 Suite | “Administrative Terrorism”
1917 Suite | “Suffragists in Virginia History”
Here, Beauties
Eschatology in Crayon Wax
Force Visibility
Mess Hall
Pandora Opens USA Today, December 3, 2015, and Drafts an Editorial
Dmitri In The Year Of The October Revolution, 1917
The Twilight of Truth?
Review | Look, by Solmaz Sharif
A Reading by Solmaz Sharif
A Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It
St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad,Petersburg
Extinction Event: The Book of Revelation, as Interpreted by Link Wray
Arrowhead
Fog on the Cher
Likeness by David Caudle
Likeness by David Caudle
Likeness, Introduction and Table of Contents
Playwrights’ Notes
The Morning Mail
Getting the Baby to Sleep
[How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder]
Hard Water
The Self and the Soul
Agca
The Prophecies of B.B. Guthrie
His long & glowing tail
Review | A Concordance of Leaves, by Philip Metres
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It
[The boss rises up the boss keeps her job]
[There are two ways maybe four there are]
The Parade
The Boy Shows the Girl His Country
Essence and Justification
Aging Poet
Waiting with the Donkey
Review | We Don't Know We Don't Know, by Nick Lantz
How to Make a Toilet-Paper-Roll Blowgun: Alternatives to Akhmatova in Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet, and Tomas Tranströmer
Insecurity’s Kingdom, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
November in the Former GDR, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
The Quotations of Meat
Purged History of
Osäkerhetens Rike
November I Forna DDR
Duck and Cover (1951) | Federal Civil Defense Administration
Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Post Card
1989: Death on the Nile
Ochre xiv
Review of Sight Map by Brian Teare
Zidane, Claudia Rankine & John Lucas
Notes on Liberty
Colony
The Privilege of Power, 1965
March 19, 2003
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles
Making History
The Parade
Perfection, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
After Hanging Mao Posters
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From 67 mogul miniatures
The Old House With Thee
Vanishing Point
Vita Nuova
Kabul Revisited, from The War Zone is My Bed
Introduction, Kabul from The War Zone is My Bed,Yasime Rana
Joshua Weiner, A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Joshua Weiner, A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Handler
Canto
Correlative
Requiem
Necessary Authorities
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, I
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, II
Garden Spot, U.S.A., Production Notes
Garden Spot, U.S.A., Act I
Garden Spot, U.S.A.
Garden Spot, U.S.A., Act II
Hal Crowther, Blackbird
Sarah Bednarek | Banana Republic
Sarah Bednarek | Podium Gestures
Sarah Bednarek | Ideologues & Dictators
Sarah Bednarek | Guerrilla Palms
Sarah Bednarek | Patriot Series
Sarah Bednarek | Reclining Terrorists
Sarah Bednarek | Selected Work
Sarah Bednarek | Start
Sarah Bednarek | Comforting Word
Jiang Qing
Underground
An Interview with Marjorie Agosín
Gator Bait
One Knowledge
Twenty-Four Robbers
Self-Portrait in the New World Order
Bad Night at Club Solidarity
Desperado
Bed of Nails
Empty Bed Blues
The Perils of Censorship, R. T. Smith
from In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner
Mencken and Me
Blackbird Feature, Hal Crowther, August 1, 2002