The New Yorker

The New Yorker: Poetry

Arts EN ↓ 127 episodes

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

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The New Yorker

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Arts

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www.wnyc.org

Latest episode

Jun 24, 2026

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Episodes

Marie Howe Reads Lucie Brock-Broido 21.03.2018

Marie Howe joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Lucie Brock-Broido's poem "The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act" and her own poem "The Star Market." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meena Alexander Reads Gerald Stern 21.02.2018

Meena Alexander joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Gerald Stern’s poem “Adonis," and her own poem “Kochi by the Sea.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman 17.01.2018

Terrance Hayes joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman's poem "Fire" and his own poem “New York Poem." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Lehman Reads John Ashbery 20.12.2017

David Lehman joins Kevin Young to read and discuss John Ashbery's Poem "Worsening Situation," and his own poem "Stages on Life's Way." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tracy K. Smith Reads Matthew Dickman 15.11.2017

Tracy K. Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman’s poem “Minimum Wage," and her own poem “Declaration.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds 18.10.2017

Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Sharon Olds’ poem “Her Birthday as Ashes in Seawater,” and his own poem “The Infinite.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Danielle Chapman Reads Zbigniew Herbert 20.09.2017

Danielle Chapman joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Zbigniew Herbert's poem "Mr. Cogito Laments the Pettiness of Dreams," and her own poem "The Tavern Parlor." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stephen Mitchell Reads Richard WIlbur 16.08.2017

Stephen Mitchell joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Richard Wilbur's poem "Two Voices in a Meadow," and his own translation of "The Death of Argos," from Homer’s Odyssey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erica Jong Reads John Updike 19.07.2017

Erica Jong joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's poem "The City Outside," and her own poem "Dear Keats." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lia Purpura Reads Carl Phillips 21.06.2017

Lia Purpura joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Carl Phillip's poem "White Dog," and her own poem "First Leaf." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney 20.05.2017

Tom Sleigh joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Seamus Heaney’s poem “In the Attic” and his own poem “The Fox.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald 19.04.2017

Andrew Motion joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Alice Oswald’s poem “Evening Poem” and his own poem “Waders.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mary Karr Reads Terrance Hayes 15.03.2017

Mary Karr joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Terrance Hayes’s poem “Ars Poetica with Bacon” and her own poem “Face Down.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin Young Reads John Berryman 15.02.2017

Kevin Young joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Berryman’s poem “A Sympathy, A Welcome” and his own poem “Oblivion.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brenda Shaughnessy Reads C.D. Wright 18.01.2017

Brenda Shaughnessy joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss C.D. Wright's poem, “Like a Prisoner of Soft Words,” and her own poem “I Have a Time Machine.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How Do You Fact-Check a Poem? 21.12.2016

Parker Henry joins Paul Muldoon to discuss fact checking poetry for The New Yorker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Galassi Reads Frederick Seidel 16.11.2016

Jonathan Galassi joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Frederick Seidel’s “Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin,” and his own poem “Lunch Poem for F.S.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amit Majmudar Reads Christopher Reid 19.10.2016

Amit Majmudar joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Christopher Reid’s “The Confusions,” and his own poem “Invocation.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eileen Myles Reads James Schuyler 21.09.2016

Eileen Myles joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Schuyler’s “White Boat, Blue Boat,” and her own poem “Dissolution.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joyce Carol Oates Reads John Updike 17.08.2016

Joyce Carol Oates joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's “A Lightened Life,” and her own poem “This Is the Season.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Billy Collins Reads Eamon Grennan 20.07.2016

Billy Collins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Eamon Grennan’s “Sea Dog,” and his own poem “Table Talk.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jana Prikryl Reads Anne Carson 15.06.2016

Jana Prikryl joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Anne Carson’s “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions,” and her own poem “Thirty Thousand Islands.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop 18.05.2016

Nick Laird joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop's “The Moose,” and his own poem “Feel Free.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Monica Youn Reads Afaa Michael Weaver 20.04.2016

Monica Youn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Afaa Michael Weaver's "Passing Through Indian Territory," and her own poem “Goldacre.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andrea Cohen Reads Philip Levine 16.03.2016

Andrea Cohen joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Philip Levine's "The Mercy," and her own poem “Major to Minor.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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