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Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli
Episode 84
Christian Wiman joins Kevin Young to discuss “Far from Kingdoms” and “Outside, In Fact, There Wasn't Any Change,” by Patrizia Cavalli, translated by …
4 years ago
Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith
Episode 83
Amanda Gorman joins Kevin Young to read “Declaration,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “Ship’s Manifest.” Gorman served as the first-ever Nationa…
4 years, 4 months ago
Aria Aber Reads Frank Bidart
Episode 82
Aria Aber joins Kevin Young to read “Half Light,” by Frank Bidart, and her own poem “Dirt and Light.” Aber is a Whiting Award recipient, a current Wa…
4 years, 5 months ago
Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón
Episode 81
Forrest Gander joins Kevin Young to read “Privacy,” by Ada Limón, and his own poem “Post-Fire Forest.” Gander is a Chancellor of the Academy of Ameri…
4 years, 6 months ago
“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics
Episode 80
In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran, and Megan Fernandes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to disc…
4 years, 11 months ago
Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith
Episode 79
Toi Derricotte joins Kevin Young to read “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “I give in to an old desire.” Derri…
5 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones
Episode 78
Margaret Atwood joins Kevin Young to read “A Stranger,” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “Flatline.” Atwood, a prolific poet and novelist, is known f…
5 years, 4 months ago
Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass
Episode 77
Arthur Sze joins Kevin Young to read “The Problem of Describing Trees,” by Robert Hass, and his own poem “Vectors.” Sze has received the Landon Liter…
5 years, 5 months ago
Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros
Episode 76
Joy Harjo joins Kevin Young to read “Still-Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves,” by Sandra Cisneros, and her ow…
5 years, 7 months ago
Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times
Episode 75
In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss it…
5 years, 9 months ago