The New Yorker: Poetry

The New Yorker

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

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Aug 31, 2022 · 39 min
Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman
Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman
Jun 22, 2022 · 42 min
Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges
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.” Jones’s work has received the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and a Stonewall Book Award.
May 25, 2022 · 32 min
Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo
Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo
Apr 6, 2022 · 40 min
Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli
Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli
Dec 22, 2021 · 37 min
Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith
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 National Youth Poet Laureate, received a 2020 Poets & Writers Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and, in 2021, became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.
Nov 24, 2021 · 37 min
Aria Aber Reads Frank Bidart
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 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and the author of “Hard Damage,” which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
Oct 20, 2021 · 34 min
Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón
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 American Poets, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his collection “Be With.”
May 5, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics
“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics
Mar 17, 2021 · 39 min
Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith
Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith
Dec 16, 2020 · 32 min
Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones
Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones
Nov 18, 2020 · 35 min
Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass
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 Literary Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize and, in 2019, the National Book Award in Poetry.
Sep 16, 2020 · 37 min
Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros
Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros
Jul 24, 2020 · 48 min
Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times
Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times
Jun 24, 2020 · 30 min
Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins
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 Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award in the fine arts from the Congressional Black Caucus foundation.
Apr 29, 2020 · 41 min
Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz
Elisa Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to read “Gathering Apricots,” by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Robert Hass, and her own poem “Failed Essay on Privilege.” Gonzalez was recently a Fulbright scholar in Poland, and her work has received support from the Norman Mailer Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Mar 25, 2020 · 39 min
Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham
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 to The New Yorker in 2012, and his début poetry collection, “For the Love of Endings,” was published in 2018.
Feb 26, 2020 · 38 min
Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott
Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott
Jan 22, 2020 · 38 min
Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar
Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar
Dec 23, 2019 · 40 min
Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio
Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio
Nov 22, 2019 · 38 min
Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”
Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”

The New Yorker: Poetry

Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo

Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

Aria Aber Reads Frank Bidart

Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón

“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics

Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith

Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones

Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass

Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros

Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times

Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins

Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz

Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham

Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar

Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”