Terry Gross

Kristin Luker is Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of California. She's the author of the new book, "Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy," (Harvard University Press).

Poet Hal Sirowitz. His new collection of poems is "Mother Said," (Crown Publishers) and is written in the vernacular of a mother. One reviewer wrote of the poems, "the logical step forward in the comic treatment of Oedipal angst." Sirowitz has appeared on MTV's "Spoken Word Unplugged" and on PBS's "The United States of Poetry."

Novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd. He's written nine novels and and biographies of Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot. His latest biography is of the 18th century poet, painter and engraver William Blake. It's "Blake: A Biography," (Alfred A. Knopf)