Idra Novey is the author of the novel Ways to Disappear, currently a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and winner of the 2016 Eagles Prize from the Brooklyn Library. Exit, Civilian, her most recent poetry collection, was selected for the 2012 National Poetry Series. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages and she's written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and New York magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @IdraNovey.
A poet reading a list of endangered species wonders how differently we might view the threatened species if a few men "found themselves gestating, say, a lemur or a tiny panda."