Bread and Circus

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing conversation about American inequality. As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturb