Audio Recordings
The following lists include all recordings that Bread Loaf has permission to post.
2024
8/21/24- Lecture by Garth Greenwell, “Saying Yes to Life: On James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room”
8/23/24- Lecture by Rebecca Makkai, “Can’t Go Over It, Can’t Go Under It”
2023
(note: this recording only contains Miciah Bay Gault’s and Joseph Earl Thomas’s readings.)
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8/22/23 - Lecture by Erin Belieu, “Flinging The Soul: On Negative Capability and the Creative Process”
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8/24/23 - Lecture by Vievee Francis, “Shifting Narratives in African American Poetry: Obama, Al Green, and Writing Post-BlackArts Movement, or The Audacity of My Own Damn Belligerence”
*Night 1 Administrative Staff Scholars: Phil SaintDenisSanchez, Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers, Diana Cao, Jon Sargent, Sebastián Páramo, Jason Lamb, Angela Siew, Lei Hu, Scott Stubbs, and Noah Stetzer.
**Night 2 Administrative Staff Scholars: Katia Agniatsvet (read by Annie Reid), Megan Pinto, Rowan Sharp, Annie Schumacher, Suhail Mandani, Sebastian Merrill, Annie Reid, Neysa King, Mark Spero, and Jennnifer Funk.
***Night 1 Bread Loaf Scholars: Vivian Hu, Carrie Esposito, Karolina Letunova, Hua Xi, Dan Kraines, Jessica Walker, María Alvarez, Jason Zencka, Edward Sambrano III, and Kyle Williams.
****Night 2 Bread Loaf Scholars: Shuchi Saraswat, Soleil David, Jodie Vinson, Oluwabambi Ige, El Williams III, and Samuel Cheney.
2022
Lecture by Carl Phillips, “It Gets Wilder: On the Writing Life”
8/20/22- Lecture by Craig Morgan Teicher, “What is Prose? What is Poetry?”
8/21/22- Lecture by Laila Lalami, “Ways of Seeing: Modulations in Point of View”
*Night 1 Scholars: Karleigh Brogan, Kirtan Nautiyal, Christian Gullette, Mary Terrier, Tochukwu Okafor, Kit Haggard, Samyak Shertok, Emily Lee Luan, Katerina Ivanov Prado, Helene Achanzar, Jim Whiteside, Noah Baldino
*Night 2 Scholars: Fay Dillof, Pritha Bhattacharyya, Tom Renjilian, Leslie Bazzett, Asha Thanki, Kim Coleman Foote, Dāshaun Washington, Alissa Morgan, JP Grasser, Matt Morris, Jung Hae Chae, Jemimah Wei, Felicity Sheehy
*Night 1 Administrative Staff Scholars: Annie Schumacher, Megan Pinto, Caroline Beimford, Sebastian Merrill, Caitlin McGill, Sebastián Páramo, Jon Sargent, Samuel Cheney, Angela Boyd, SM Stubbs
*Night 2 Administrative Staff Scholars: Jennifer Funk, Jason Lamb, Preeti Parikh, Suhail Mandani, Rowan Sharp, Adrienne Chung, Dolapo Demuren, Phil SaintDenisSanchez, Zoë Ruiz
2019
8/18/19- Reading by Ilya Kaminsky
(Due to technical issues with the original file, this audio was recorded later in the conference.)
8/21/19- Readings by Yusef Komunyakaa and Kevin Young
*Those included in the scholar, work-study scholar, and administrative staff scholar readings are as follows:
Scholar Reading: Celeste Chan, Laura Goode, Amanda Hawkins, Roohi Choudhry, Irvin Weathersby, Armen Davoudian, Benjamin Schaefer, Jennifer Bowen Hicks, Callie Siskel, Uche Okonkwo, S. Erin Batiste, Mike Alberti, Paul Tran, Sindya Bhanoo, Michael Torres, Gabriela Garcia, Jennifer Stock
Work-Study Scholar Reading #1: Belinda Huijuan Tang, Ricardo Herrera Bandrich, Caleb Nolen, Adrienne Chung, Angela Boyd, Omer Friedlander, Emily Luan, Annesha Sengupta, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Annie Schumacher, Michael Dhyne, Dujie Tahat, Dan Ryan
Work-Study Scholar Reading #2: Kailyn McCord, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Megan Pinto, Katie Rice, Joseph Earl Thomas, Drew Coles, Samuel Cheney, Wes Holtermann, James Fujinami Moore, Jessie Shabin, Janet Barrow, Taneum Bambrick
Administrative Scholar Reading: Gabrielle Bates, Caroline Beimford, Noah Bogdonoff, Katie Condon, Sara Freeman, Dolapo Demuren, Caitlin McGill, Jennifer Funk, Jason Lamb, Elisa Gonzalez, Zoë Ruiz, Sebastian Hasani Páramo, Noah Stetzer
2018
8/21/18- Readings by Mat Johnson and Alix Ohlin
8/23/18- Lecture by Michael Byers, “A Failure of Optimism: The Strange Case of Jack Webb, Squarest Man in America”
*Those included in the tuition scholar, waiter, and staff readings are as follows:
Bread Loaf Scholar Readings include Liz Arnold, Joy Baglio, Elizabeth Brina, Simon Han, Niki Herd, Taylor Johnson, Steven Kleinman, Clarence Orsi, Alison Rollins, Mariya Taher, Yuki Tanaka, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Aggie Zivaljevic.
Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #1 include Noah Bogdonoff, Daphne Palasi Andreades, Afua Ansong, Vince Granata, Sebastian Paramo, Taylor Koekkoek, Mary South, Taneum Bambrick, Morgan Thomas, Laurie Thomas, Dylan Weir, and De’Shawn Winslow.
Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #2 include Alex McElroy, Dolapo Demuren, Zoë Ruiz, Rachel Mannheimer, Jaime Lalinde, Erica Berry, Josha Jay Nathan, Michaela Cowgill, Jonathan Escoffery, Grace You Li, ‘Pemi Aguda, and Anne Price.
Bread Loaf Staff Reading includes Eric McMillan, Noah Stetzer, Maud Streep, Gabrielle Bates, Caitlin McGill, Jennifer Funk, Sara Freeman, Madeline Beach Carey, Kenyatta Rogers, Caroline Beimford, Conor Burke, Koye Oyedeji, Jason Lamb, Sara Burnett, Elisa Gonzalez, Jamel Brinkley, and David Hutcheson.
2017
*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.
2016
The following list includes all recordings that Bread Loaf has permission to post.
*Those included in the tuition scholar, waiter, and staff readings are as follows:
Bread Loaf Tuition Scholar Readings include Graham Barnhart, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Matt Morton, Jennifer Lunden, Erin Adair-Hodges, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Hai-Dang Phan, Leticia Del Toro, Sarah Dohrmann, Chris Drangle, and Cam Terwilliger
Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #1 include Benjamin Aleshire, Caroline Beimford, Sam Sax, Rita Bullwinkel, Svetlana Beggs, Eric McMillan, Carina del Valle Schorske, Sumita Mukherji, Andrés Cerpa, Caitlin McGill, Jean Ho, Kenyatta Rogers, and Kawai Washburn
Bread Loaf Waiter Readings #2 include Hannah Fries, Koye Oyedeji, Gabrielle Bates, Francisco Cantú, Michael Badger, Anne Price, Madeline Beach Carey, Joseph Capista, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Jennifer S. Cheng, Skye Davis, Elisa Gonzalez, and Kathryn Savage
Bread Loaf Staff Readings #1 include Rosalie Moffett, Maud Streep, Matthew Kelsey, Katie Moulton, Sam Ross, Shubha Sunder, Tyler Goldman, Alice Sola Kim, and Margaret Ross
Bread Loaf Staff Readings #2 include Justin Boening, Noah Stetzer, Jason Lamb, Conor Burke, Jamel Brinkley, Sara Burnett, Leah Bailly, and Steven Kleinman