Read a selection from Felipe Benitez Reyes' book, Probable Lives, which is now out in paperback. The book revolves around "character-poets" who "read as forgotten or unknown 20th century authors, all 'rediscovered' and compiled by an anthologist who is also the creation of Felipe Benitez Reyes."
To mark National Poetry Month, NPR.org is featuring a series of newly published works selected by the Academy of American Poets. Learn more about this and other titles at the academy's New Spring Books list.
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