The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus reads from his third novel, The Flame Alphabet, forthcoming from Knopf in January 2012.
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Sabina Murray on Tales of the New World
Author Sabina Murray discusses her second story collection, Tales of the New World, inspired by the explorers and settlers of history and legend who shaped our modern world. The PEN/Faulkner Award winner's book is forthcoming from Black Cat...
"The Sirens" by Tomaž Šalamun
Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun reads "The Sirens" from his eleventh poetry collection in English, The Blue Tower, released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October.
Joan Didion’s Blue Nights
Kimberly Farr reads an excerpt from the memoir Blue Nights (Knopf, 2011) in which Joan Didion writes with stunning frankness about the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo, as well as her own mortality.
"Evoking the Dawn" by Nate Pritts
Nate Pritts reads "Evoking the Dawn" from his fifth poetry collection, Sweet Nothing, published by Minnesota indie outfit Lowbrow Press in October.
"Pretty Convincing" by Tim Dlugos
New York City poet Tim Dlugos published four chapbooks and one full-length collection before his death from AIDS in 1990. A new volume, A Fast Life: The Collected Works of Tim Dlugos, is being released by Nightboat Books this month. In this...
Steve Earle's "The Gulf of Mexico"
In May Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published Steve Earle’s first novel, I’ll Never Get Out of Here Alive. Around the same time New West Records released his album of the same title, a much-anticipated follow-up to the 2009 Grammy Award-...
Josh Ritter's "The Curse"
This month Dial Press will publish Josh Ritter's debut novel, Bright’s Passage, and introduce readers to what listeners of Ritter’s songs have been enjoying for some time. As Poets & Writers contributor Benjamin Percy writes, "...
It & Co. by Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith reads "It & Co." from her third poetry collection, Life on Mars, published by Graywolf Press in May.
Penny Fuller reads "Terra Incognita" by D. H. Lawrence
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Daniel Davis reads "Waiting for the Barbarians" by C. P. Cavafy
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Rebecca Luker reads "Remember" by Christina Rossetti
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Harriet Walter reads "The Walk" by Thomas Hardy
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Alan Campbell reads "A Little Tooth" by Thomas Lux
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Ann Hampton Callaway reads Sonnet 3 From Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Melissa Errico reads "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Peter Paige reads "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" by Anne Sexton
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Michael Learned reads "An Ancient Gesture" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Claire Lautier reads "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License,a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screenreading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Joanna Gleason reads "Sonnet XVII" by Pablo Neruda
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Peter Friedman reads "Psalm Concerning the Castle" by Denise Levertov
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
James Barbour reads "If" by Rudyard Kipling
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Tyne Daly reads "But I Can't" by W. H. Auden
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Francesca Faridany reads "Myth" by Muriel Rukeyser
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...
Harriet Harris reads "'Any fool can get into an ocean...'" by Jack Spicer
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...