Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast

Gabriel Bump reads from the opening of Part Three of his novel The New Naturals, published by Algonquin Books, November 2023.

Jaswinder Bolina reads “English as a Second Language” from his poetry collection English as a Second Language and Other Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2023.

Leslie Sainz reads “Nature and Nurture, Miami, FL” from Have You Been Long Enough at Table, published in September 2023 by Tin House.

Mary Ruefle reads “The Effusive” from her prose collection The Book, published in September 2023 by Wave Books.

Shane McCrae reads from the opening of his memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping published in August 2023 by Scribner.

Daniel Mason reads “The CATAMOUNT, or a True Relation of a Bloody Encounter that Lately Happen’d; a song for VOICE and FIFE, to the tune of CHEERILY and MERRILY,” a poem within the narrative of his novel North Woods, published in September 2023 by Random House.

Sally Wen Mao reads “Chimera” and “a dream or a fox” from her poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces, published in August 2023 by Graywolf Press.

Jamel Brinkley reads from “Blessed Deliverance” from his story collection Witness, published in August 2023 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Júnior, translated by Johnny Lorenz by Poets & Writers

Open Throat by Henry Hoke by Poets & Writers

So to Speak by Terrance Hayes by Poets & Writers

The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead by Madison Davis by Poets & Writers

Susto by Tommy Archuleta by Poets & Writers

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby by Poets & Writers

Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante by Poets & Writers

Story of a Poem by Matthew Zapruder by Poets & Writers

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor by Poets & Writers

West: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal by Poets & Writers

The Speak Angel Series by Alice Notley by Poets & Writers

Take What You Need by Idra Novey by Poets & Writers