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Chloé Caldwell reads an excerpt from her memoir Trying, published by Graywolf Press in August 2025.

Isabella DeSendi reads “Poem for Anorexia in April” from her poetry collection Someone Else’s Hunger, published by Four Way Books in September 2025.

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads from the opening of her novel Pick a Color, published by Little, Brown in September 2025.

Natalie Bakopoulos reads an excerpt from her novel Archipelago, published by Tin House Books in September 2025.

Aracelis Girmay reads “after Sin título (Sikán con chivo), Belkis Ayón” from her poetry collection Green of All Heads, published by BOA Editions in September 2025.

Ayşegül Savaş reads an excerpt from “Twirl,” a story in her collection Long Distance, published by Bloomsbury in July 2025.

James Shea reads four poems from his collection Last Day of My Face, published by the University of Iowa Press in June 2025.

Melissa Febos reads an excerpt of The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex, published by Knopf in June 2025.