In the spring of 2011 over 20 poets were given a tour of the construction site of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, the portion that was being replaced after a section of the old span collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake. One result of that tour was the publication of an anthology of poems and photographs, Everything Indicates - Bay Bridge Poems and Portraits. In celebration of this book and of the Bay Bridge's 75th anniversary, several poets read their work, including Tamsin Smith, Katherine Hastings, Kevin Simmonds, Jack Pitts, Ben Davis and others.

Also, WordTemple host Katherine Hastings talks this month with Bruce Snider about his prize-winning collection Paradise, Indiana. Snider is also the author of The Year We Studied Women. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the recipient of a James A. Michner fellowship, he teaches at Stanford University.