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Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli from 2022-04-06T12:00
Christian Wiman joins Kevin Young to discuss “Far from Kingdoms” and “Outside, In Fact, There Wasn't Any Change,” by Patrizia Cavalli, translated by Judith Baumel, and his own poem “Eating...
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Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith from 2021-12-22T12:00
Amanda Gorman joins Kevin Young to read “Listen
Aria Aber Reads Frank Bidart from 2021-11-24T12:00
Aria Aber joins Kevin Young to read “Listen
Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón from 2021-10-20T12:00
Forrest Gander joins Kevin Young to read “Listen
“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics from 2021-05-05T12:00
In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran, and Megan Fernandes join Kevin Young Listen
Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith from 2021-03-17T12:00
Toi Derricotte joins Kevin Young to read “Listen
Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones from 2020-12-16T12:00
Margaret Atwood joins Kevin Young to read “Listen
Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass from 2020-11-18T12:00
Arthur Sze joins Kevin Young to read “The Problem of Describing Trees,” by Robert Hass, and his own po...
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Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros from 2020-09-16T12:00
Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times from 2020-07-24T12:00
In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Listen
Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins from 2020-06-24T12:00
Clarence Major joinsKevin Youngto read “Downpour,” by Billy ...
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Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz from 2020-04-29T12:00
Elisa Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to read “Listen
Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham from 2020-03-25T12:00
Ben Purkert joinsKevin Youngto read “Not...
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Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott from 2020-02-26T12:00
Kwame Dawes joins Kevin Young to read “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” by Derek Walcott, and his own p...
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Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar from 2020-01-22T12:00
Ellen Bass joins Kevin Young to read “Quahogs,” by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem “Listen
Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio from 2019-12-23T12:00
Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’sPurgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyor...
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Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven” from 2019-11-22T12:00
Shane McCrae joins Kevin Young to to discuss his poetry sequence “Jim Limber in Heaven,” featured on newyorker.com. McCrae is a poet whose whose work has received such honors as a Whiting Award,...
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Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath from 2019-10-31T12:00
Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to read “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem “Listen
Eliza Griswold discusses "First Person" from 2019-09-19T12:00
Eliza Griswold joins Kevin Young to discuss her poetry sequence "Listen
Ariel Francisco Reads James Wright from 2019-08-28T12:00
Ariel Francisco joins Kevin Young to read "By a Lake in Minnesota," by James Wright, and his own poem "
Campbell McGrath Reads Czeslaw Milosz from 2019-07-17T12:00
Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem, “Listen
Natasha Trethewey Reads Charles Wright from 2019-06-19T12:00
Natasha Trethewey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Charles Wright's poem "Toadstools," and her own poem "Repentance." Trethewey, a former United States Poet Laureate, is a chancellor ...
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Safiya Sinclair Reads Natalie Diaz from 2019-05-22T12:00
Safiya Sinclair joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Natalie Diaz's poem "Listen
Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin from 2019-04-17T12:00
Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins Kevin Young to discuss"Rain Light" by W.S. Merwin, and her own poem "Listen
Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke from 2019-03-20T12:00
Peter Balakian joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Theodore Roethke's poem "In a Dark Time" and his ...
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Craig Morgan Teicher Reads Forrest Gander from 2019-02-20T12:00
Craig Morgan Teicher joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Forrest Gander’s poem “Son” and his own poem, also titled “Listen
Deborah Landau Reads Anne Sexton from 2018-11-30T12:00
Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton's poem "Little Girl, My S...
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Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt from 2018-10-17T12:00
Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poem "Groundhog" and his own poem "Listen
Nick Flynn Reads Zoë Hitzig from 2018-09-19T12:00
Nick Flynn joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Zoë Hitzig’s poem “Objectivity as Blanket" and his own poem “<...
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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska from 2018-08-21T12:00
Catherine Barnett joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Wislawa Szymborska's poem "Maybe All This" (translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Barańczak) and her own poem...
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Nicole Sealey Reads Ellen Bass from 2018-07-27T12:00
Nicole Sealey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bass' poem "Indigo" and her own poem “Listen
Tiana Clark Reads Natasha Trethewey from 2018-06-20T12:00
Tiana Clark joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Natasha Trethewey's poem "Repentance," and her own poem, "Nashville." Tiana Clark is the author of the chapbook "Equilibrium," which won the 201...
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Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz Discuss “Envelopes of Air” from 2018-05-23T12:00
Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz join Kevin Young to discuss their collaborative poetry project, “Envelopes of Air,” a series of eight poems written in correspondence between the two poets, currently ...
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Marie Howe Reads Lucie Brock-Broido from 2018-03-21T12:00
Marie Howe joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Lucie Brock-Broido's poem "The American...
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Meena Alexander Reads Gerald Stern from 2018-02-21T12:00
Meena Alexander joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Gerald Stern’s poem “Adonis," and her own poem “Listen
Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman from 2018-01-17T00:00
Terrance Hayes joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman's poem "Fire" and his own poem “Listen
David Lehman Reads John Ashbery from 2017-12-20T00:00
David Lehman joins Kevin Young to read and discuss John Ashbery's Poem "Worsening Situation," and his own poem "Stages on Life's Way."
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Tracy K. Smith Reads Matthew Dickman from 2017-11-15T00:00
Tracy K. Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman’s poem “Minimum Wage," and her own poem “Declaration.”
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Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds from 2017-10-18T00:00
Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Sharon Olds’ poem “Her Birthday as Ashes in Seawater,” and his own poem “The Infinite.”
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Danielle Chapman Reads Zbigniew Herbert from 2017-09-20T00:00
Danielle Chapman joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Zbigniew Herbert's poem "Mr. Cogito Laments the Pettiness of Dreams," and her own poem "The Tavern Parlor."
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Stephen Mitchell Reads Richard WIlbur from 2017-08-16T00:00
Stephen Mitchell joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Richard Wilbur's poem "Two Voices in a Meadow," and his ...
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Erica Jong Reads John Updike from 2017-07-19T00:00
Erica Jong joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's poem "The City Outside," and her own poem "Dear Keats."
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Lia Purpura Reads Carl Phillips from 2017-06-21T00:00
Lia Purpura joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Carl Phillip's poem "White Dog," and her own poem "First Leaf."
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Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney from 2017-05-20T00:00
Tom Sleigh joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Seamus Heaney’s poem “In the Attic” and his own poem ...
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Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald from 2017-04-19T00:00
Andrew Motion joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Alice Oswald’s poem “Evening Poem”...
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Mary Karr Reads Terrance Hayes from 2017-03-15T00:00
Mary Karr joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Terrance Hayes’s poem “Ars Poetica with Bacon...
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Kevin Young Reads John Berryman from 2017-02-15T00:00
Kevin Young joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Berryman’s poem “A Sympathy, A Welcome”...
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Brenda Shaughnessy Reads C.D. Wright from 2017-01-18T00:00
Brenda Shaughnessy joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss C.D. Wright's poem, “Like a Prisoner of Soft Words,” and her own poem “I Have a Time Machine.”
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How Do You Fact-Check a Poem? from 2016-12-21T00:00
Parker Henry joins Paul Muldoon to discuss fact checking poetry for The New Yorker.
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Jonathan Galassi Reads Frederick Seidel from 2016-11-16T00:00
Jonathan Galassi joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Frederick Seidel’s “Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin,” and his own poem “Lunch Poem for F.S.”
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Amit Majmudar Reads Christopher Reid from 2016-10-19T00:00
Amit Majmudar joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Christopher Reid’s “The Confusions,” and his own poem “Invocation.”
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Eileen Myles Reads James Schuyler from 2016-09-21T00:00
Eileen Myles joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Schuyler’s “White Boat, Blue Boat,” and her own poem “Dissolution.”
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Joyce Carol Oates Reads John Updike from 2016-08-17T00:00
Joyce Carol Oates joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's “A Lightened Life,” and her own poem “This Is the Season.”
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Billy Collins Reads Eamon Grennan from 2016-07-20T00:00
Billy Collins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Eamon Grennan’s “Sea Dog,” and his own poem “Table Talk.”
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Jana Prikryl Reads Anne Carson from 2016-06-15T00:00
Jana Prikryl joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Anne Carson’s “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions,” and her own poem “Thirty Thousand Islands.”
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Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop from 2016-05-18T00:00
Nick Laird joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop's “The Moose,” and his own poem “Feel Free.”
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Monica Youn Reads Afaa Michael Weaver from 2016-04-20T00:00
Monica Youn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Afaa Michael Weaver's "Passing Through Indian Territory," and her own poem “Goldacre.”
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Andrea Cohen Reads Philip Levine from 2016-03-16T00:00
Andrea Cohen joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Philip Levine's "The Mercy," and her own poem “Major to Minor.”
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Stephen Dunn Reads Donald Justice from 2016-02-17T00:00
Stephen Dunn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Donald Justice's "There is a gold light in certain old paintings," and his own poem “History.”
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J. D. McClatchy Reads James Merrill from 2016-01-20T00:00
J. D. McClatchy joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Merrill's "164 East 72nd Street," and his own poem “Ca?alo?lu.”
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Ellen Bass Reads Adam Zagajewski from 2015-12-16T16:37:33
Ellen Bass joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” and her own poem “Reincarnation.”
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Meghan O'Rourke Reads John Ashbery from 2015-11-18T12:15:16
Meghan O'Rourke joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Ashbery's "Tapestry,” and her own poem “Apartment Living."
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Calvin Trillin Reads Ogden Nash from 2015-10-21T15:35:37
Calvin Trillin joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Ogden Nash's "Autres Bêtes, Autres Mœurs” and his own poem "Oh, Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has to End This Way?"
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Rosanna Warren Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt from 2015-09-16T16:18:20
Rosanna Warren joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s “Bear,” and her own poem “Man in Stream.”
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Sophie Cabot Black Reads Donald Hall from 2015-08-19T14:30:39
Sophie Cabot Black joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Donald Hall’s “The Ship Pounding,” and her own poem “Chemotherapy.”
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Matthea Harvey Reads W. S. Merwin from 2015-07-15T15:42:33
Matthea Harvey joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss W. S. Merwin’s “Vixen,” and her own poem “Everything Must Go.”
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Michael Robbins Reads John Ashbery from 2015-06-17T20:00:56
Michael Robbins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss “Myrtle,” by John Ashbery, and his own poem “Country Music.”
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Ada Limón Reads Jennifer L. Knox from 2015-05-20T15:18:21
Ada Limón joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Jennifer L. Knox’s “Pimp My Ride” and her own poem “State Bird.”
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Robert Pinsky Reads Elizabeth Bishop from 2015-04-16T17:00:45
Robert Pinsky joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses” and a poem of his own.
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Major Jackson Reads Derek Walcott from 2015-03-18T21:38:50
Major Jackson joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Derek Walcott’s “In Italy” and a poem of his own.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips Reads Nick Laird from 2015-03-10T16:32:58
Rowan Ricardo Philips joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Nick Laird’s “Feel Free” and a poem of his own.
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Timothy Donnelly Reads Yusef Komunyakaa from 2015-01-21T18:52:30
Timothy Donnelly joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Fortress” and a poem of his own.
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Stephen Burt Reads Liz Waldner from 2014-12-16T17:34:50
Stephen Burt joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Liz Waldner’s “Sad Verso of the Sunny _______.”
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Maureen McLane Reads Liz Waldner from 2014-11-19T21:21:16
Maureen McLane joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Liz Waldner’s “The Sovereignty and the Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed.”
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James Richardson Reads W. S. Merwin from 2014-10-15T21:36:44
James Richardson joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss W. S. Merwin’s “A Single Autumn.”
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Rae Armantrout Reads Susan Wheeler from 2014-09-17T22:06:28
Rae Armantrout joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Susan Wheeler’s “The Split.”
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Lucie Brock-Broido reads Franz Wright from 2014-08-20T18:27:59
Lucie Brock-Broido reads and discusses with host Paul Muldoon a poem by Franz Wright and poem of her own.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht Reads Lucie Brock-Broido from 2014-07-23T18:15:59
Jennifer Michael Hecht reads Lucie Brock-Broido.
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Yusef Komunyakaa Reads Marilyn Hacker from 2014-06-24T01:12:26
Yusef Komunyakaa reads a poem by Marilyn Hacker, as well as one of his own poems, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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Anna McDonald Reads Kathleen Graber from 2014-05-21T23:33:13
Anna McDonald reads a poem by Kathleen Graber, as well as one of her own poems, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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Michael Dickman Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt from 2014-04-17T00:04:21
Michael Dickman reads Ellen Bryant Voigt and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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Sharon Olds Reads Rodney Jones from 2014-03-20T00:53:48
Sharon Olds reads Rodney Jones and her own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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John Ashbery Reads Charles Simic from 2014-02-21T02:22:53
John Ashbery reads Charles Simic and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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Tracy K. Smith Reads Kevin Young from 2014-01-25T02:23:35
Tracy K. Smith reads a poem by Kevin Young and her own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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Philip Levine Reads Ellen Bass from 2013-12-19T02:37:43
Philip Levine reads a poem by Ellen Bass and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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