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February, March, April reading

Crystallography, Christian Bok
Glass, Irony, and God, Anne Carson
The Dolphin and Day by Day (selections), Robert Lowell
Dolls, Claire Millikin
Burying the Mountain, Shangyang Fang
In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae
frank: sonnets, Diane Seuss
All the Flowers Kneeling, Paul Tran
Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Juan Felipe Herrera
Ajax, Sophocles
Trojan Women, Euripides
The Bacchae, Euripides (from 2021; listed now)
Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides (from 2021; listed now)
Orestes, Euripides
Alceste, Euripides
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Coriolanus, Shakespeare (from 2021; listed now)
Pericles, Shakespeare (from 2021; listed now)

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