Audio Recordings
The following lists include all recordings that Bread Loaf has permission to post.
2023
6/2/23 – Welcome with Directors Jennifer Grotz and Megan Mayhew Bergman (coming soon)
6/3/23 – Lecture by Nathaniel Rich, “The Activist Impulse in Environmental Writing”
6/3/23 – Readings by Mónica de la Torre, Pam Houston, J. Drew Lanham, and Christopher Merrill
6/4/23 – Readings by Jennifer Grotz, Ladee Hubbard, and Joseph O. Legaspi
6/5/23 – Lecture by Padma Viswanathan, “It’s Alive! Translations as Embodied Shadows”
6/5/23 – Readings by Hosam Aboul-Ela, Jennifer Chang, and Carolyn Finney
6/6/23 – Lecture by Carolyn Finney, “Freedom Writers: On Nature, Justice & Telling the Truth”
6/6/23 – Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Nathaniel Rich, and Matvei Yankelevich
6/7/23 – Readings by Ramona Ausubel, Geoffrey Brock, and Padma Viswanathan
2022
6/13/22 – Welcome by Jennifer Grotz
6/13/22 – Welcome by Megan Mayhew Bergman
6/14/22 – Lecture by Tarfia Faizullah, “To Be a Leaf”
6/14/22 – Lecture by Madhu H. Kaza, “Lines of Flight: Translating in a Continuous World”
6/15/22 – Lecture by Elizabeth Rush, “On Rising Together: Collective and Creative Responses to the Climate Crisis” (This lecture will not be posted.)
6/16/22 – Lecture by Abe Streep, “Immersion, Implication, and the Lonely Myth of Objectivity” (This lecture will not be posted.)
6/16/22 – Readings by Kazim Ali, Peter Constantine, and Elizabeth Rush
6/17/22 – Lecture by Janisse Ray, “Following Golden Threads” (This lecture will not be posted.)
6/17/22 – Readings by Tarfia Faizullah, Anton Hur, Morgan Jerkins, and Matvei Yankelevich
6/18/22 – Lecture by Morgan Jerkins, “What happened to Maggie? On Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’”
6/18/22 – Readings by Jennifer Grotz, Abe Streep, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, and Kimi Traube
2019
5/31/19 – Welcome by Jennifer Grotz, Megan Mayhew Bergman, and Bill McKibben
6/1/19 – Readings by John Elder, Edward Gauvin, Elisabeth Jaquette, and Claire Vaye Watkins
6/1/19 – Lecture by Jennifer Chang, “Other Pastorals: Writing Race and Place”
6/2/19 – Lecture by John Elder, “Mount Tamalpais and Mount Abraham”
6/2/19- Readings by Jennifer Chang, J. Drew Lanham, and Emily Wilson
6/3/19- Lecture by Helen Macdonald, “Bugs and Birds and Bewilderment: How I Learned to Write About Nature”
6/4/19- Readings by John Balcom, Daniel Duane, and Helen Macdonald
6/5/19- Lecture by Daniel Duane, “What Are Mountains For?”
6/5/19- Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Sean Hill, and Suzanne Jill Levine
2018
6/1/18- Welcome by Megan Mayhew Bergman; Reading by Scott Russell Sanders
6/2/18- Reading by Emily Wilson, “The Odyssey: A Reading and Discussion”
6/2/18- Readings by Brooks Haxton, Kazim Ali, and Deirdre Heekin
6/3/18- Lecture by Scott Russell Sanders, “What We Write About When We Write About Nature”
6/3/18- Readings by Ted Genoways, Sora Kim-Russell, and Amber Flora Thomas
6/5/18- Readings by Susan Bernofsky, Ginger Strand, and Monica de la Torre
6/6/18- Lecture by Brooks Haxton, “Images”
6/6/18- Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Grotz, and Luis Alberto Urrea
2017
6/3/17 – Welcome by H. Emerson Blake and Michael Collier; Reading by Ross Gay
6/4/17 – Lecture by John Elder, “Writing the Edge”
6/4/17 – Readings by Ted Genoways, Maureen Freely, and Robin Wall Kimmerer
6/5/17 – Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Idra Novey, and Joe Wilkins
6/6/17 – Lecture by Joe Wilkins, “Hearing Voices: Speaking as the Other in Environmental Writing”
6/7/17 – Readings by Camille T. Dungy and Christopher Merrill
6/8/17 – Lecture by Robin Wall Kimmerer, “What Does the Earth Ask of Us”
6/8/17 – Readings by John Elder and Jennifer Grotz
2016
6/3/16 – Welcome by H. Emerson Blake and Michael Collier, Reading by Scott Russell Sanders
6/4/16 – Lecture by Robert Michael Pyle, “Secrets of the Talking Leaf”
6/4/16 – Readings by Geoffrey Brock and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
6/5/16 – Readings by Belle Boggs, David Hinton, and Rubén Martinez
6/6/16 – Lecture by Jane Brox, “There Are Times When This Shelter Itself is Deceptive”
6/6/16 – Talk by David Hinton, “Wilderness Thought in Ancient Chinese and Modern American Poetry”
6/7/16 – Lecture by Belle Boggs, “Fieldwork in Fiction and Nonfiction”
6/7/16 – Readings by Jane Brox, Karen Emmerich, and Maurice Manning
6/8/16 – Lecture by Rubén Martinez, “Spirit, Flesh, Place: Linking Nature and the Human”