Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast

Maya C. Popa reads from her debut poetry collection, American Faith.

Marwa Helal reads from her debut poetry collection, Invasive species.

Keith S. Wilson reads from his debut poetry collection, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love.

Jake Skeets reads from his debut poetry collection, Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers.

Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes reads from her debut poetry collection, The Inheritance of Haunting.

Camonghne Felix reads from her debut poetry collection, Build Yourself a Boat.

Su Hwang reads “Show Me Where It Hurts” from her debut poetry collection, Bodega, published in October by Milkweed Editions.

Sharon Olds reads “Meeting a Stranger” from her poetry collection Arias, published by Alfred A. Knopf in October.

Kevin Coval reads “Rudy” and “Everything Must Go” from his poetry collection Everything Must Go, published in October by Haymarket Books. Illustrated by Langston Allston.

Benjamin Percy reads an excerpt from “The Cold Boy” from his short story collection Suicide Woods, published in October by Graywolf Press.

Tiffany Midge reads “An Open Letter to White Girls Regarding Pumpkin Spice and Cultural Appropriation,” from her memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, published in October by Bison Books.

Mira Ptacin reads from her memoir The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna, published in October by Liveright.

Matthew Zapruder reads from his new poetry collection, Father’s Day, published in September by Copper Canyon Press.

Erou by Maya Phillips by Poets & Writers

Leslie Jamison reads from her new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, published in September by Little, Brown.

Audio excerpted courtesy Penguin Random House Audio from A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar, narrated by Sophie Amoss.

t’ai freedom ford reads from her new poetry collection, & more black, published in July by Augury Books.

Nicole Dennis-Benn reads from her novel Patsy, published in June by Liveright.

Courtney Maum reads from her novel Costalegre, published in July by Tin House.

Helen Oyeyemi reads from her new novel, Gingerbread, published in March by Riverhead Books. Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio.