Distinguished Professor Diane Wakoski, Michigan State University Poet in Residence, joins her longtime friend, acclaimed poet Jerome Rothenberg, in a reading at the MSU Main Library. The two authors read in turn, choosing poems based upon their warm personal friendship and the spirit of the gathering. Rothenberg opens with a series of six prose poems titled, Poems for the hell of hungry ghosts, for D.W., written for Wakoski during their collaboration in New York in the early 1960s. Wakoski reads El camino real (The Kings Highway), written in honor of Rothenberg's sixtieth birthday. Wakoski also reads from Coins and coffins, and her newest book, The diamond dog and Rothenberg reads from a series of poems honoring his Jewish-Polish ancestry. The event, part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series, marks the first time in over twenty-five years that the two friends have read together. They are introduced by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez.
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