The New Yorker: Poetry

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Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Kevin Young.

123 - Adrian Matejka Reads C.D. Wright

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The New Yorker: Poetry

Episodes

Adrian Matejka Reads C.D. Wright

April Bernard Reads John Ashbery

Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Traci Brimhall Reads Thomas Lux

Henri Cole Reads Louise Glück

Bruce Smith Reads Mary Ruefle

Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright

Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan

Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine

David St. John Reads Larry Levis

Edward Hirsch Reads Gerald Stern

Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander

Kevin Young and Deborah Garrison Discuss “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker”

Dobby Gibson Reads Diane Seuss

Rae Armantrout Reads Dorothea Lasky

Jim Moore Reads Jane Mead

Amber Tamblyn Reads Didi Jackson

Valzhyna Mort Reads Victoria Amelina and Wisława Szymborska

Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark

Amy Woolard Reads Charles Wright

Special Feature: Major Jackson reads Clint Smith on The Slowdown

José Antonio Rodríguez Reads Naomi Shihab Nye

Ada Limón Reads Carrie Fountain

Donika Kelly Reads Mary Oliver

Richie Hofmann Reads Henri Cole

Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright

Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Dorothea Lasky Reads Louise Bogan

Diane Mehta Reads Eavan Boland

Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

Kate Baer Reads Ellen Bass

Tributaries: A Conversation with Robin Coste Lewis

Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo

Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

Aria Aber Reads Frank Bidart

Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón

“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics

Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith

Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones

Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass

Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros

Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times

Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins

Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz

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