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New Yorker: Poetry Podcast

  • Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin to read her translation of "Testimonies," by Amelina, and Clare Cavanaugh's translation of "Map," by Szymborska (July 2024). 
  • Raymond Antrobus joins Kevin to read "A Protactile Version of 'Tintern Abbey,'" by John Lee Clark, and his own poem "Signs, Music" (July 2024).
  • Amy Woolard joins Kevin to read "Via Negativa," by Charles Wright, and her own poem "Late Shift" (May 2024).
  • José Antonio joins Kevin to read "World of the future, we thirsted," by Naomi Shihab Nye, and his own poem "Tender" (April 2024). 
  • Ada Limón joins Kevin to read "You Belong to the World," by Carrie Fountain, and her own poem "Hell or High Water" (March 2024). 
  • Donika Kelly joins Kevin to read "One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day," by Mary Oliver, and her own poem "Sixteen Center" (February 2024). 
  • Richie Hofmann joins Kevin to read "Twilight," by Henri Cole, and his own poem "French Novel" (January 2024).
  • Bianca Stone joins Kevin to read "Learning to Read," by Franz Wright, and her own poem "What's Poetry Like?" (November 2023).
  • Evie Shockley joins Kevin to read "Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove," by Rita Dove, and her own poem "the blessings" (October 2023).
  • Dorothea Lasky joins Kevin to read "Three Songs," by Louise Bogan, and her own poem "The Green Lake" (September 2023).
  • Diane Mehta joins Kevin to read “The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” by Eavan Boland, and her own poem “Landscape with Double Bow" (August 2023).
  • Adrienne Su joins Kevin to read “The Longing to Be Saved,” by Maxine Kumin, and her own poem “The Days" (July 2023).
  • David Baker joins Kevin to read “In Passing,” by Stanley Plumly, and his own poem “Six Notes" (June 2023).
  • Kate Baer joins Kevin to read “The Morning After,” by Ellen Bass, and her own poem “Mixup" (May 2023). 
  • Sandra Cisneros joins Kevin to read “Shelter,” by José Antonio Rodríguez, and her own poem “Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982" (September 2022).
  • Diane Seuss joins Kevin to read and discuss "Ode," by Jane Huffman, and her own poem, "Gertrude Stein" (August 2022).
  • Saeed Jones joins Kevin to read “The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart,” by Deborah Digges, and his own poem “A Spell to Banish Grief” (June 2022).
  • Eileen Myles joins Kevin to read “Without,” by Joy Harjo, and their own poem “Dissloution” (May 2022).
  • Christian Wiman joins Kevin 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 Grapes Downward" (April 2022).
  • Amanda Gorman joins Kevin to discuss “Declaration” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “Ship’s Manifest” (December 2021).
  • Amanda Gorman reads several poems for the New Yorker; featuring a textual intro by Kevin (December 2021).
  • Aria Aber joins Kevin to discuss “Half-Light,” by Frank Bidart, and her own poem “Dirt and Light” (November 2021).
  • Forrest Gander joins Kevin to discuss "Privacy" by Ada Limón, and his own poem "Post-Fire Forest" (October 2021).
  • In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran and Megan Fernandes join Kevin to read their work and to discuss the role of poetry in our tumultuous times (May 2021).
  • Toi Derricotte joins Kevin to discuss “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “I give in to an old desire” (March 2021).
  • Margaret Atwood joins Kevin to discuss “A Stranger,” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “Flatline" (December 2020).
  • Arthur Sze joins Kevin to discuss “The Problem of Describing Trees,” by Robert Hass, and his own poem “Vectors" (November 2020).
  • Joy Harjo joins Kevin to discuss “Still-Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves,” by Sandra Cisneros, and her own poem “Running" (September 2020).
  • In a special episode, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Kevin to read their work and discuss its relationship to protest and liberation (July 2020).
  • Clarence Major joins Kevin to discuss "Downpour," by Billy Collins, and his own poem "Hair" (June 2020).
  • Elisa Gonzalez joins Kevin to discuss "Gathering Apricots," by Czeslaw Milosz, and her own poem, "Failed Essay on Privilege" (April 2020).
  • Ben Purkert joins Kevin to discuss "Notes on the Reality of the Self," by Jorie Graham, and his own poem "News" (March 2020).
  • Kwame Dawes jones Kevin to discuss "The Season of Phantasmal Peace," by Derek Walcott, and his poem "Before Winter" (February 2020).
  • Ellen Bass joins Kevin to discuss "Quahogs," by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem "Because" (January 2020).
  • Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin to discuss her translation of the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy (December 2019).
  • Shane McCrae joins Kevin to discuss his poetry sequence "Jim Limber in Heaven" (November 2019).
  • Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin to discuss "The Moon and the Yew Tree," by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem "Cliffhanging" (October 2019).
  • Eliza Griswold joins Kevin to discuss her poetry sequence "First Person" (September 2019).
  • Ariel Francisco joins Kevin to discuss "By a Lake in Minnesota," by James Wright, and his own poem "Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing" (August 2019). 
  • Campbell McGrath joins Kevin to discuss "Realism," by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem "The Human Heart" (July 2019).
  • Natasha Trethewey joins Kevin to read and discuss Charles Wright’s “Toadstools,” and her own poem “Repentance” (June 2019).
  • Safiya Sinclair joins Kevin to read and discuss Natalie Diaz’s poem “From the Desire Field” and her own poem “Gospel of the Misunderstood” (May 2019).
  • Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins Kevin to discuss “Rain Light,” by W. S. Merwin, and her own poem “Heart of Darkness” (April 2019).
  • Peter Balakian joins Kevin to read and discuss Theodore Roethke’s poem “In a Dark Time” and his own poem “Eggplant” (March 2019).
  • Craig Morgan Teicher joins Kevin to read and discuss Forrest Gander’s poem “Son,” and his own poem, also titled “Son” (February 2019).
  • Deborah Landau joins Kevin to read and discuss Anne Sexton’s poem “Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” and her own poem “Solitaire” (November 2018).
  • Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poem “Groundhog” and his own poem “What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around” (October 2018).
  • Nick Flynn joins Kevin to read and discuss Zoë Hitzig’s poem “Objectivity as Blanket” and his own poem “The King of Fire” (September 2018).
  • Catherine Barnett joins Kevin to read and discuss Szymborska’s poem “Maybe All This” and her own poem “Son in August” (August 2018).
  • Nicole Sealey joins Kevin to read and discuss Ellen Bass’s poem “Indigo,” and her own poem “A Violence” (July 2018).
  • Tiana Clark joins Kevin to read and discuss Natasha Trethewey’s poem “Repentance,” and her own poem “Nashville” (June 2018).
  • Kevin discusses Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz’s collaborative letter-writing project, “Envelopes of Air” (May 2018).
  • Marie Howe joins Kevin to read and discuss Lucie Brock-Broido’s poem “The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act” and her own poem “The Star Market” (March 2018).
  • Meena Alexander joins Kevin to read and discuss Gerald Stern’s poem “Adonis” and her own poem “Kochi by the Sea” (February 2018).
  • Terrance Hayes joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman’s poem “Fire” and his own poem “New York Poem” (January 2018).
  • David Lehman joins Kevin Young to read and discuss John Ashbery’s poem “Worsening Situation” and his own poem “Stages on Life’s Way” (December 2017).
  • Tracy K. Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Dickman’s poem “Minimum Wage” and her own poem “Declaration” (November 2017).

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