Adrian Matejka reads poetry selections including C. D. Wright's 'Against the Encroaching Grays' and his own poem 'Almost Home' in conversation with Kevin Young.
The three poetry collections examine war, memory, death, labor, masculinity, and spiritual redemption through diverse forms and narrative sequences rooted in everyday and ritual imagery.
Two midcentury English couples navigate secrecy, trauma, and shifting modernity amid a brutal winter, while a contemporary poetry collection probes desire, grief, and language's transformations.