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Read a new poem by Frank Bidart in the latest issue of The New Yorker, and listen to audio of Bidart reading the poem.

“An intense read” proclaims PW about Forrest Gander‘s new novel, “with meditative poems between chapters to complete the package.”

Jericho Brown reads “Heart Condition” from his new collection The New Testament in his interview with PBS NewsHour.

Blue Flower Arts mourns the loss of Galway Kinnell (1927-2014).

Ted Kooser‘s new book of poems calls attention to the intimacies of life through commonplace objects and occurrences.

Citizen: An American Lyric, by  National Book Award Finalist Claudia Rankine, is reviewed in the New Yorker.

Katha Pollitt‘s new book is a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good.

Richard Blanco discusses The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, his funny and poignant memoir, on NPR.

Listen to Brian Turner discussing My Life as a Foreign Country on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Molly Antopol‘s debut story collection The UnAmericans is longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.