Rhyme, slant rhyme, and compositional instinct

Mark Wunderlich joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “My Great-Grandmother’s Bible,” by Spencer Reece, and his own poem “The Bats.” Wunderlich is the author of five books of poems, including “The Anchorage,” which received the Lambda Literary Award; “The Earth Avails,” which won the Rilke Prize; and “God of Nothingness,” which was published in 2021. His new book, “MATEY,” is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.

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