The Bedford Introduction to Literature is designed to be your go-to place for everything your students need to succeed in the AP Literature course — and in college. Along with Michael Meyer’s extensive and accessible reading and writing advice, your students will find an unsurpassed collection of classic and contemporary works including pieces never before found in an anthology, like stories by Z.Z. Packer, Kim Addonizio, and Dennis Lehane; poems by Kevin Young and Kay Ryan; and plays by Elaine Jarvik and Jon Robin Baitz. The 20 stories, 90 poems, and 4 plays new to this edition represent traditional, multicultural, contemporary, and popular literature — and include classics that have long made classroom discussion come alive. The Bedford Introduction to Literature not only helps your students succeed on the exam, but invites them to see writers as real people and literature as a living art.