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Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges
Episode 86
Saeed Jones joins Kevin Young to read “The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart,” by Deborah Digges, and his own poem “A Spell to Banish Grief.” …
4 years ago
Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo
Episode 85
Eileen Myles joins Kevin Young to read “Without,” by Joy Harjo, and their own poem “Dissloution.” Myles has published more than twenty books of poetr…
4 years ago
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, 2 months 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, 6 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, 7 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, 8 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…
5 years, 1 month 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, 3 months 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, 6 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, 7 months ago