Poets & Writers Theater

“This is not a work of history. It is a report full of holes,” reads the late C. D. Wright from her book One With Others: [a little book of her days] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) in this 2015 recording of an event at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

“Is the woman in the pool of light / really reading or just staring / at what is written,” reads C. D. Wright from her poem “Lake Echo, Dear” in this reading at the 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. 

“Poses no significant litter problem. / Ranks as ‘not particularly outstanding,’ according to the Forest Service.” At the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, Forrest Gander reads from the opening of Casting Deep Shade (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), C. D. Wright’s posthumously published collection. The multigenre, three-panel, hardcover book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“You’re gonna pierce the page and you’re gonna pierce infinity.” U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera discusses the art of revision at Poets Forum 2014 with Naomi Shihab Nye and C. D. Wright, as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Chancellors Conversations.

"Poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free and declare them so." The Poetry Everywhere project, in association with the Poetry Foundation, features C. D. Wright reading her poem "Lake Echo, Dear."

“Comrades, be not in mourning for your being...” C. D. Wright reads “Like Hearing Your Name in a Language You Don’t Understand” as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Dear Poet project. The poem is from Wright’s collection Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).

Poet C. D. Wright was interviewed on the PBS NewsHour in 2011 about her book One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).