In today's flash briefing poetry reading, Catherine Bresner is a guest reader. She reads Brenda Shaughnessy's poem, "It Never Happened." We recorded in two different places and times, so the volume might jump around a bit, but it is worth it to hear Catherine's emotive reading style on this poem. More on Catherine -- Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue 2017). Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Heavy Feather Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, The Pinch and elsewhere. Her book, the empty season, won the Diode Edition Book Prize in 2017 and she was a runner-up for the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize. She has been the coordinating editor of the Seattle Review, and the publicity assistant for Wave Books. Currently, she is the managing editor for BOAAT Press. You can find more of her work at (www.catherinebresner.com). More on Brenda Shaughnessy -- (https://www.brendashaughnessy.com/) ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com).