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‘The Everybody Ensemble’ : Amy Leach celebrates the natural world in her new collection of whimsical essays.

Ana Castillo reads from her latest poetry collection, ‘My Book of the Dead’

'A Most Remarkable Creature': Jonathan Meiburg reveals the curiosity and charisma of the caracara.

Tomás Morín reads from his latest poetry collection, ‘Machete’

Laura Van Prooyen is the author of Frances of the Wider Field. It’s published by Lily Poetry Review. She is also the founder of Next Page Press.

Mark Oppenheimer’s latest book is “Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood.”

Barbara Ras shares poems from her latest poetry collection The Blues of Heaven. These are poems that are tender and wise, measured and uproarious, somber and celebratory.

In Sandra Cisneros’ latest book, Corina is living her life in Chicago when she finds a letter she’d long forgotten. This and other ephemera of bygone days when she was young, single and following her dreams to become a writer in Paris lead Corina to respond to her friend Martita through this epistolary work.

At 91, the beloved author is back to writing stories after the death of her husband to COVID-19. Her new collection is called “Today A Woman Went Mad In The Supermarket.”

Alexander Nemerov brings us the story of pioneering artist Helen Frankenthaler and a look into New York’s 1950s art scene.