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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, 9 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, 11 months ago
Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins
Episode 74
Clarence Major joins Kevin Young to read “Downpour,” by Billy Collins, and his own poem “Hair.” Major’s recent honors include a PEN Oakland Reginald …
6 years ago
Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz
Episode 73
Elisa Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to read “Gathering Apricots,” by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Robert Hass, and her own poem “Failed Essay on Privil…
6 years, 1 month ago
Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham
Episode 72
Ben Purkert joins Kevin Young to read “Notes on the Reality of the Self,” by Jorie Graham, and his own poem “News.” Purkert began contributing poetry…
6 years, 2 months ago
Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott
Episode 71
Kwame Dawes joins Kevin Young to read “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” by Derek Walcott, and his own poem “Before Winter.” Dawes is the author of ov…
6 years, 3 months ago
Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar
Episode 70
Ellen Bass joins Kevin Young to read “Quahogs,” by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem “Because.” A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass h…
6 years, 5 months ago
Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio
Episode 69
Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet w…
6 years, 6 months ago
Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”
Episode 68
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…
6 years, 7 months ago
Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath
Episode 67
Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to read “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem “Cliffhanging.” Seshadri is a poet whose work…
6 years, 7 months ago