2017 Audio Recordings

The following list includes all recordings that Bread Loaf has permission to post.

8/16/17- Welcome by Middlebury College President Laurie L. Patton and Conference Director Michael Collier, Readings by Lauren Groff and Edward Hirsch

8/17/17- Lecture by Garrett Hongo, “The Mirror Diary: Ancestry and the Absence of an Archive”

8/17/17- Readings by Marianne Boruch, Jericho Brown, and Elena Passarello

8/17/17- Readings by Charles Baxter and Ellen Bryant Voigt

8/18/17- Lecture by Eavan Boland, “From Object to Image”

8/18/17- Bread Loaf Scholar Readings*

8/18/17- Readings by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Natashia Deón, Maeve Kinkead, and Kristen Radtke

8/18/17- Reading by Helena María Viramontes

8/19/17- Lecture by Carl Phillips, “Toward a Politics of Mere Being”

8/19/17- Readings by Xhenet Aliu, Mauro Javier Cardenas, Matt Gallagher, and Jenny Johnson

8/19/17- Readings by Peter Ho Davies and Garrett Hongo

8/19/17- Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #1*

8/20/17- Lecture by Charles Baxter, “Things about to Disappear: The Writer as Curator”

8/20/17- Readings by Gary Hawkins, Stacey D’Erasmo, and Ann Hood

8/20/17- Readings by Eavan Boland and Randall Kenan

8/21/17- Lecture by Peter Ho Davies, “Playing with Fire”

8/21/17- Reading Carl Phillips

8/21/17- Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #2*

8/22/17- Lecture by Edward Hirsch, “What Is the Task?: On Lyric Poetry”

8/22/17- Readings by Rick Barot, Emma Cline, and David Shields

8/22/17- Readings by Christopher Castellani and Sally Keith

8/22/17- Bread Loaf Staff Reading #1*

8/23/17- Lecture by Ann Hood, “Why Read?”

8/23/17- Readings by Kia Corthron, Phillip B. Williams, and Luis Alberto Urrea

8/24/17- Lecture by Rick Barot, “The Authentic Voice”

8/24/17- Readings by francine j. harris, Vanessa Hua, and Maud Casey

8/24/17- Readings by Robert Cohen and Jennifer Grotz

8/24/17- Bread Loaf Staff Readings #2*

8/25/17- Lecture by David Shields, “Life is Short; Art is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity”

8/25/17- Readings by Jennifer Foerster, Allegra Hyde, Mike Scalise, and Rion Scott

8/25/17- Reading by Michael Collier

*Those included in the tuition scholar, waiter, and staff readings are as follows:

Bread Loaf Scholar Readings include A. H. Jerriod Avant,  Jennifer Hope Choi, Tiana Clark, Lydia Conklin, Jaquira Diaz, Meghan Dunn, Jamie Figueroa, Edgar Kunz, Sonya Larson, Janice Obuchowski, Alan Rossi, Aurvi Sharma, William Pei Shih, Michael Weinstein, Annie Woodford, and Jenny Xie.

Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #1 include Kendra Atleework, Sarah Colwill-Brown, Kyle Dacuyan, Carla Diaz, Jennifer Funk, Ben Hinshaw, Francisco Marquez, Koye Oyedeji, Jayme Ringleb, Charles Schneider, De’Shawn Winslow, and Pam Zhang.

Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #2 include Ralph Bousquet, Amir Adam, Moeko Fujii, Eli Cohen, Mariama J. Lockington, David Hutcheson, Elisse Ota, Casandra Lopez, Frederick McKindra, Cheswayo Mphanza, Sara Freeman, and Anne Price.

Bread Loaf Staff Reading #1 include Matthew Kelsey, Jamel Brinkley, Noah Stetzer, Katie Moulton, Conor Burke, Gabrielle Bates, Shubha Sunder, Sam Ross, and Justin Boening.

Bread Loaf Staff Reading #2 include Jason Lamb, Kenyatta Rogers, Margaret Ross, Alice Sola Kim, Jennifer S. Cheng, Maud Streep, LaToya Watkins, and Eric McMillan.