"My father wanted me to become a boxer, my mother wanted me to become an engineer, and I think I found a way to mix those two visions together—in poetry." Rigoberto González, recipient of the 2014 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, is featured in "The Way of the Workshop" in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

"When I was writing the first draft of the book, I was maybe six months into it when the Trayvon Martin killing happened in Florida—that had a really powerful impact on me and on the book." Matt Bell, who is featured in the "The Way of the Workshop" in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks about his new novel, Scrapper (Soho Press, 2015).

Ann Beattie, who is featured in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads from her new book, The State We're In: Maine Stories (Scribner, 2015), and talks about her experiences ​in writing and reading fiction, and working with editors.​ For more Beattie, listen to the latest episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.

Jill Bialosky reads her favorite poem by William Wordsworth for a new video documentary collaboration between Tate Street, Robert Pinsky, and the Favorite Poem Project. Bialosky's latest novel, The Prize (Counterpoint Press, 2015), is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

This poem by Frank Stanford is featured in Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives, published by Third Man Books this month. The book is a collection of unpublished poems, drafts, photos, and correspondence between Stanford and fellow American poets Allen Ginsberg and Alan Dugan.

"On the quiet days, the view out my window pops a hip." Angelique Palmer reads her poem "Naming Things" at the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"I meet another Henry. And he's nothing like me. Why are we both called Henry when there's no commonality?" This short film, produced by Naresh Ramchandani and directed by Chris Dada, features seven poems by Henry Ponder, a British poet who tweets daily poems.

"Today, I broke your solar system. Oops. / ​My bad. Your graph said I was supposed / ​to make a nice little loop around the sun." ​Fatimah Asghar reads her poem "Pluto Shits on the Universe," which was published in April in Poetry magazine, at the 2015 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Rockford, Illinois.

In this video for Mashable, Chuck Palahniuk reads an imagined kid-friendly version of his novel Fight Club (Norton, 1996). Palahniuk's debut short story collection, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread, was published in May by Doubleday.

"I was born in minutes in a roadside kitchen a skillet / whispering my name." Gregory Pardlo speaks with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about his life and his poetry collection Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.