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In this latest installment, Nathaniel Mackey—winner of the 2015 Bollingen Prize for Poetry—will read from his work and sit for a conversation with Cathy Park Hong. “His poetry ambitiously continues an American bardic line that unfolds from Leaves of Grass to Pound’s Cantos to H.D.’s Trilogy to Olson’s The Maximus Poems, winds through the whole of Robert Duncan’s work and extends beyond all of these,” wrote Don Share. “Mackey’s own rare combinations create an astonishing and resounding effect: his words go where music goes.”