The New Yorker: Poetry

Written by: WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
  • Summary

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

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Episodes
  • Jim Moore Reads Jane Mead
    Oct 23 2024

    Jim Moore joins Kevin Young to read “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” Moore has published eight poetry collections, including, most recently, “Prognosis.” He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple Minnesota Book Awards.

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    23 mins
  • Amber Tamblyn Reads Didi Jackson
    Sep 27 2024

    Amber Tamblyn joins Kevin Young to read “The Dahlias,” by Didi Jackson, and her own poem “This Living.” Tamblyn, a writer, director, and actor, is the creator of the newsletter “Listening in the Dark” and the editor of an anthology of the same title.

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    31 mins
  • Valzhyna Mort Reads Victoria Amelina and Wisława Szymborska
    Jul 24 2024

    Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin Young to read “Testimonies” by Victoria Amelina, which Mort translated from the Ukrainian, and “Map,” by Wisława Szymborska, which was translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh. Mort’s collection “Music for the Dead and Resurrected” won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Fund.

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    44 mins

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