Each semester, the Plutzik Reading Series brings in one prose and one poetry author to read for the University community. Representing the poetry side of the series, poet Catherine Barnett became the next addition to the reading series on Tuesday Sept. 16. / To get to my archives, / my son will have to put his ear to the ground, // listen for a quiet scream. / How will I tell him the river I / feared to drink from // has come to drink from me? She claims she does not know the tradition, and, as opposed to writing in form, she writes in more narrative styles.