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Last month, Jeffrey Brown talked to artist and author Lou Beach about his recent collection of short stories, "420 Characters," which began as status updates on Facebook. After the interview, Beach read several of the stories for us. At long…

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Actors perform during a rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" in the French city of Orange, during the Choregies d'Orange, a festival dedicated to opera, lyrical art and symphonic concert. Photo by Gerard Julien/ AFP/ GettyImages.

Tracy K. Smith's poem is from her book "Life on Mars" (2011, Graywolf Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry earlier this year. She is the author of two other collections of poetry: "Duende" (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the…