Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Series 9, Fall 2025

Authors: Sargon Boulus, Jim Schoppert, Jacques Viau Renaud, Lucia Berlin, Edward Dorn, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn

Publisher: Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center (2025)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Series IX bridges disparate themes that, read together, explore what it means to live as a writer and offer mutual support while facing cultural erasure. Lost & Found Series IX includes correspondences between acclaimed writer Lucia Berlin and poets Edward Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn; interviews which trace the literary encounters of Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus, including a facsimile of his short-lived Bay Area poetry journal, Tigris, featuring a long poem by Boulus’ friend Etel Adnan; a selection of unpublished poetry and writings from the Tlingit artist Jim Schoppert alongside never before seen sketches and studies from his personal papers; and a selection of poems translated for the first ever English language collection by Haitian-Dominican poet and revolutionary fighter Jacques Viau Renaud.