New stories, poems, and plays that students will want to read — many appearing for the first time in a student anthology — include stories by Maggie Mitchell, Tobias Wolff, and Rick Moody; poems by Cornelius Eady and Jill McDonough; and plays by Andrew Biss and David Ives. The 14 stories, 51 poems, and 3 plays new to this edition represent traditional, multicultural, contemporary, and popular literature — and include classics that have long made classroom discussion come alive.An in-depth chapter on esteemed fiction writer Dagoberto Gilb, created with Dagoberto Gilb. Three of Gilb’s own stories appear alongside compelling personal insights into his work — written specifically for Michael Meyer’s anthologies — plus a collection of rare photographs and manuscript pages. Like its sister chapter created with Billy Collins, this new collection invites students to meet the author in a unique way. A thematic case study titled "The World of Work" offers poems in an impressive range of styles and points of view so that every student will find something to relate to. Advice from contemporary writers, direct to students. Brief "When I Read" and "When I Write" selections, commissioned especially for Michael Meyer’s anthologies, give students the opportunity to hear from many notable writers like Martín Espada, Tony Hoagland, and Marilyn Nelson. Lively, varied insights—on reading and writing habits, managing writer’s block, even how to get started as a writer, to name a few—invite your students to join the scene. E-Pages that feature the voices of celebrated writers and actors reading contemporary and classic stories, poems, and scenes from Literature To Go. E-Pages take advantage of what the Web can do, allowing students to hear John Updike reading "A&P," T.S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Gwendolyn Brooks reading "We Real Cool," Jamaica Kincaid reading "Girl," and more.