In this 2025 reading hosted by the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Diana Arterian reads from Agrippina the Younger (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Frannie Lindsay reads from The Snow’s Wife (CavanKerry Press, 2020), and Ariel Yelen reads from I Was Working (Princeton University Press, 2024).
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