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A reading by Rae Armantrout from her new book, Safe Rooms, for The Wolf Reading Series.

Rae Armantrout’s recent book Safe Rooms appeared from Wesleyan in 2026. Publishers Weekly says, “Its pages are rich with cerebral and linguistic playfulness. The result is another insightful contribution from one of the clearest eyed diagnosticians of the modern age.” “Armantrout’s book Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. in 2010. Her poems have appeared  in journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, The Atlantic, Granta, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry,  several editions of Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She was the judge of the Yale Younger Poets Prize from 2020-2025. Armantrout is professor emerita at UC San Diego.