Kevin Coval reads "The Meaning of Children," a poem from his second collection, Everyday People, recently published by EM Press in Chicago. Coval is the cofounder of Chicago`s Louder Than a Bomb, the largest youth poetry festival in the world....
An excerpt from Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring by Zach Plague
Zach Plague
reads an excerpt from his first novel, Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring, published in August by Featherproof Books.
Part 7: A yard of mummies
Adelaide was at her old school standing in the hall outside Ms. Man`s...
An excerpt from The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
S. Epatha Merkerson
reads an excerpt from Andrew Sean Greer`s third novel, The Story of a Marriage, published in May by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
We think we know the ones we love.
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A poem from A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads a poem from A Coney Island of the Mind, published by New Directions in 1958. A fiftieth anniversary edition of the book is forthcoming from New Directions in April.
A poem from Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee reads the first poem, "In His Own Shadow," from his fourth poetry collection, Behind My Eyes, published in January by Norton.
