The New Yorker: Poetry

Richard Siken joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/i-catch-sight-of-the-now">I Catch Sight of the Now</a>,” by Jorie Graham, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/piano-lesson-richard-siken-poem">Piano Lesson</a>.” Siken is a poet and painter whose book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300107897">Crush</a>” won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Thom Gunn Award. His other books are “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556594771/">War of the Foxes</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556596243/">I Do Know Some Things</a>,” which was published last year and won a Thom Gunn Award.

Julia Alvarez joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/12/02/the-schoolroom-on-the-second-floor-of-the-knitting-mill">The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill</a>,” by Judy Page Heitzman, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/mami-at-her-vanity-julia-alvarez-poem">Mami at Her Vanity</a>.” Alvarez is the author of many novels, nonfiction books, children’s books, and poetry collections, including, most recently, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593805038">Visitations</a>.” She has received a Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, and a National Medal of Arts. She’s also the subject of a PBS “American Masters” documentary.

Monica Ferrell joins Kevin Young to discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/06/13/carrowmore">Carrowmore</a>,” by Lucie Brock-Broido, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/the-fifties-monica-ferrell-poem">The Fifties</a>.” Ferrell is the author of a novel and three books of poetry, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1945588225/">You Darling Thing</a>,” a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her new collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1961897822">The Future</a>,” was published in March.

Maya C. Popa joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/artless">Artless</a>,” by Brenda Shaughnessy, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/the-world-was-all-before-them-maya-c-popa-poem">The World Was All Before Them</a>.” Popa is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1324076216/">Wound Is the Origin of Wonder</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/194644846X/">American Faith</a>,” the latter of which won the North American Book Prize. Her third collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1324124563/">If You Love That Lady</a>,” will be published by W. W. Norton this July. Popa serves as the poetry editor of Publishers Weekly, and teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs at New York University.

Adrian Matejka joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/against-the-encroaching-grays-c-d-wright-poem">Against the Encroaching Grays</a>,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/almost-home-adrian-matejka-poem">Almost Home</a>.” Matejka is the author of several poetry collections and the graphic novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-His-Feet-Johnson-Century/dp/1324096136">Last on His Feet</a>.” He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, served as the poet laureate of the state of Indiana from 2018 to 2019, and is editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine. His new collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Be-Easy-New-Selected-Poems/dp/1324097507">Be Easy: New &amp; Selected Poems</a>,” will be published in March. He lives in Chicago.

April Bernard joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/a-worldly-country">A Worldly Country</a>,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/30/beagle-or-something">Beagle or Something</a>.” Bernard is the author of two novels and six poetry collections—including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blackbird-Bye-April-Bernard/dp/0679721959">Blackbird Bye Bye</a>,” which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/World-Behind-Poems/dp/1324036206">The World Behind the World</a>,” which was published in 2023. She’s a professor of English and creative writing at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York. 

Patricia Lockwood joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/07/17/in-the-waiting-room">In the Waiting Room</a>,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/love-poem-like-we-used-to-write-it">Love Poem Like We Used to Write It</a>.” Lockwood is the author of the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Talking-About-This/dp/0593189582">No One Is Talking About This</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Will-There-Ever-Another-You/dp/0593718550">Will There Ever Be Another You</a>,” along with two poetry collections and a memoir. She has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and she’s a contributing editor at the London Review of Books.

Traci Brimhall joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/06/magazine19970728refrigerator-1957">Refrigerator, 1957</a>,” by Thomas Lux, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/love-poem-without-a-drop-of-hyperbole-in-it">Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It</a>.” Brimhall is the author of five poetry collections, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Prodigal-Traci-Brimhall/dp/1556597029">Love Prodigal</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-Lady-Ruins-Poems-Barnard/dp/0393086437/">Our Lady of the Ruins</a>,” which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service—and she is the poet laureate of Kansas and the 2025 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. 

Henri Cole joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/07/06/vita-nova">Vita Nova</a>,” by Louise Glück, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/figs">Figs</a>.” Cole is the author of many poetry collections, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Other-Love-Poems-Henri-Cole/dp/0374619034">The Other Love</a>.” He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of honors such as the Thom Gunn Award and the Jackson Poetry Prize. 

Bruce Smith joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/open-letter-to-my-ancestors">Open Letter To My Ancestors</a>,” by Mary Ruefle, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/the-game-8">The Game</a>.” Smith, the author of eight poetry collections, including the forthcoming “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Ghost-Bruce-Smith/dp/B0FBRJ85H5">Hungry Ghost</a>,” has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in addition to fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Syracuse University.

Garrett Hongo joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1983/03/21/tang-notebook">T’ang Notebook</a>,” by Charles Wright, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/on-emptiness-garrett-hongo-poem">On Emptiness</a>.” Garrett Hongo is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ocean-Clouds-Poems-Garrett-Hongo/dp/0593802039">Ocean of Clouds</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Sound-Memoir-Stereo/dp/0375425063/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KWOAHJW7FPL0&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ZvajtLIT1VtIkE5i6Nr09g.-QDpr4Gl1XCYqGdbx_8-hqy4KYhJKipVhtFDdXGr1Yw&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=garrett+hongo+the+perfect+sound&amp;qid=1754873034&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=garrett+hongo+the+perfect+sound%2Cstripbooks%2C113&amp;sr=1-1">The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo</a>.” He's received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he's a distinguished professor at the University of Oregon.

Sasha Debevec-McKenney joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/hammond-b3-organ-cistern">Hammond B3 Organ Cistern</a>,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/kaepernick">Kaepernick</a>.” Debevec-McKenney is the author of the new poetry collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Joy-My-Middle-Name-Poems/dp/1324110678">Joy Is My Middle Name</a>.” She was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and a creative-writing fellow at Emory University. Her poems have been published widely.

Megan Fernandes joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/half-life-in-exile">Half-Life in Exile</a>,” by Hala Alyan, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/on-your-departure-to-california-megan-fernandes-poem">On Your Departure to California</a>.” Fernandes’s books include “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/I-Do-Everything-Im-Told/dp/1953534880">I Do Everything I’m Told</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Good-Boys-Poems-Megan-Fernandes/dp/1947793403">Good Boys</a>.” Her poems have been published widely, and she’s received fellowships from the Yaddo Foundation, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Hawthornden Foundation. She’s currently an associate professor of English and the writer-in-residence at Lafayette College.

Erika Meitner joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/03/12/what-work-is">What Work Is</a>,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/to-gather-together">To Gather Together</a>.” Meitner’s books include “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Useful-Junk-American-Poets-Continuum/dp/1950774538">Useful Junk</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Carry-American-Poets-Continuum/dp/1942683626/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RLLJIYC0LP4L&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2vwNBIlzWhPVI89mx3qziw.Pye1LbsqwVuq9hpVW08O7uSbx7_tEh98gzAgo3K927k&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=holy+moly+carry+me&amp;qid=1747754909&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=holy+moly+carry+me%2Cstripbooks%2C110&amp;sr=1-1">Holy Moly Carry Me</a>,” which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is currently a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Program Fellow, and she’s the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

David St. John joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/11/10/picking-grape-in-an-abandoned-vineyard">Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard</a>,” by Larry Levis, and his own poem “The Shore.” St. John is the author of many poetry collections and the recipient of honors including the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the George Drury Smith Award from Beyond Baroque. He’s also the editor of “Swirl &amp; Vortex,” a volume of collected poems by the late Larry Levis, forthcoming in 2026.

Edward Hirsch joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/07/04/96-vandam">96 Vandam</a>,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/11/25/man-on-a-fire-escape">Man on a Fire Escape</a>.” Hirsch's honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honor, and a National Jewish Book Award.

Jericho Brown joins Kevin Young to read “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander, and his own poem, “Colosseum.” Jericho Brown, who received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his collection “The Tradition.” He’s a 2024 MacArthur Fellow and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

This year, The New Yorker turns one hundred years old, and, to celebrate the occasion, we’re publishing an anthology: “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Century-Poetry-New-Yorker-1925-2025/dp/0593801938">A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, 1925-2025</a>.” Deborah Garrison, a poet and an editor at Knopf, who worked closely with The New Yorker on this exciting project, joins Kevin Young to discuss the anthology.

Dobby Gibson joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/i-have-slept-in-many-places-for-years-on-mattresses-that-entered">I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered</a>,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/05/this-is-a-test-of-the-federal-emergency-management-agency-wireless-warning-system-dobby-gibson-poem">This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Wireless Warning System</a>.” Gibson is the author of five poetry collections, including, most recently, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1644453096">Hold Everything</a>.” He’s also the recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Jim Moore joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/i-wonder-if-i-will-miss-the-moss">I wonder if I will miss the moss</a>,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/29/mother-jim-moore-poem">Mother</a>.” Moore has published eight poetry collections, including, most recently, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prognosis-Poems-Jim-Moore/dp/1644450704">Prognosis</a>.” He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple Minnesota Book Awards.

Amber Tamblyn joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/09/the-dahlias-didi-jackson-poem">The Dahlias</a>,” by Didi Jackson, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/10/this-living-amber-tamblyn-poem">This Living</a>.” 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.

Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/testimonies-victoria-amelina-poem">Testimonies</a>,” by Victoria Amelina, which Mort translated from the Ukrainian, and “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/14/map">Map</a>,” 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.

Raymond Antrobus joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/a-protactile-version-of-tintern-abbey-john-lee-clark-poem">A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey,’</a> ” by John Lee Clark, and his own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/signs-music-raymond-antrobus-poem">Signs, Music</a>.” Antrobus has received the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Ted Hughes Award from the Poetry Society, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award, among other honors. 

Amy Woolard joins Kevin Young to read “Via Negativa,” by Charles Wright, and her own poem “Late Shift.” Woolard, whose debut poetry collection, “Neck of the Woods,” won the 2018 Alice James Award from Alice James Books. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, she’s also a civil-rights attorney and the chief program officer for the ACLU of Virginia.

We have a special episode to share with you today of the daily poetry podcast, “The Slowdown.” “The Slowdown” offers a poem and a moment of reflection in short episodes, each weekday. In this episode, host Major Jackson, reads “Chaos Theory” by Clint Smith. Major writes… “Occasionally, I try to follow the series of decisions that led me to this present, however triumphant or painful. My life wavers between fate and destiny. But then again, poetry brings me to the belief that some mysterious force is at work, below, that unveils a spiritually deeper meaning to it all.” If you’d like to hear more episodes of “The Slowdown,” you can learn more at <a href="https://www.slowdownshow.org/">slowdownshow.org</a> and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

José Antonio Rodríguez joins Kevin Young to read “[World of the future, we thirsted](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/world-of-the-future-we-thirsted),” by Naomi Shihab Nye, and his own poem “[Tender](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/tender).” Rodríguez is a poet, memoirist, and translator whose honors include a Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and a Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.

Ada Limón joins Kevin Young to read “You Belong to The World,” by Carrie Fountain, and her own poem “Hell or High Water.” Limón is the current United States Poet Laureate and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She’s the author of six books—including “The Carrying,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry—and the editor of the forthcoming anthology “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World.

Donika Kelly joins Kevin Young to read “One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver, and her own poem “Sixteen Center.”

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Twilight,” by Henri Cole, and his own poem “French Novel.”

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Learning to Read,” by Franz Wright, and her own poem “What’s Poetry Like?”

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove,” by Rita Dove, and her own poem “the blessings.”

Dorothea Lasky Reads Louise Bogan

Diane Mehta Reads Eavan Boland

Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

Kate Baer joins Kevin Young to read “The Morning After,” by Ellen Bass, and her own poem “Mixup.” Baer is the New York Times bestselling author of three poetry collections, including, most recently “And Yet.”

Tributaries: A Conversation with Robin Coste Lewis

Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

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.

Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo

Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

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.

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.

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.”

“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 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.

Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros

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

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. 

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.

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. 

Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar

Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”

Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

Eliza Griswold discusses "First Person"

Ariel Francisco Reads James Wright

Campbell McGrath Reads Czeslaw Milosz

Natasha Trethewey Reads Charles Wright

Safiya Sinclair joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Natalie Diaz's poem "From the Desire Field" and her own poem "Gospel of the Misunderstood." Sinclair is the author of the poetry collection "Cannibal" and the forthcoming memoir "How to Say Babylon."

Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins Kevin Young to discuss "Rain Light" by W.S. Merwin, and her own poem "Heart of Darkness." Griffiths is a poet and artist who has received fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Cave Canem Foundation, and Yaddo, among others. Her latest book is "Lighting the Shadow."

Peter Balakian joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Theodore Roethke's poem "In a Dark Time" and his own poem "Eggplant." Balakian's latest book is "Ozone Journal," which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Craig Morgan Teicher Reads Forrest Gander

Deborah Landau Reads Anne Sexton

Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt

Nick Flynn Reads Zoë Hitzig

Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

Nicole Sealey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bass' poem "Indigo" and her own poem “A Violence." Sealey is the executive director at the Cave Canem Foundation and the author of the poetry collection "Ordinary Beast."

Tiana Clark Reads Natasha Trethewey

Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz join Kevin Young to discuss their collaborative poetry project, “Envelopes of Air,” a series of eight poems written in correspondence between the two poets, currently featured on newyorker.com. 

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."

Meena Alexander joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Gerald Stern’s poem “Adonis," and her own poem “Kochi by the Sea.” 

Terrance Hayes joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman's poem "Fire" and his own poem “New York Poem."

David Lehman joins Kevin Young to read and discuss John Ashbery's Poem "Worsening Situation," and his own poem "Stages on Life's Way."

Tracy K. Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman’s poem “Minimum Wage," and her own poem “Declaration.” 

Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Sharon Olds’ poem “Her Birthday as Ashes in Seawater,” and his own poem “The Infinite.”

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."

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.

Erica Jong joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's poem "The City Outside," and her own poem "Dear Keats."

Lia Purpura joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Carl Phillip's poem "White Dog," and her own poem "First Leaf."

Tom Sleigh joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Seamus Heaney’s poem “In the Attic” and his own poem “The Fox.”

Andrew Motion joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Alice Oswald’s poem “Evening Poem” and his own poem “Waders.”

Mary Karr joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Terrance Hayes’s poem “Ars Poetica with Bacon” and her own poem “Face Down.”

Kevin Young joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Berryman’s poem “A Sympathy, A Welcome” and his own poem “Oblivion.”

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.”

Parker Henry joins Paul Muldoon to discuss fact checking poetry for The New Yorker.

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.”

Amit Majmudar joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Christopher Reid’s “The Confusions,” and his own poem “Invocation.”

Eileen Myles joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Schuyler’s “White Boat, Blue Boat,” and her own poem “Dissolution.”

Joyce Carol Oates joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's “A Lightened Life,” and her own poem “This Is the Season.”

Billy Collins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Eamon Grennan’s “Sea Dog,” and his own poem “Table Talk.”

Jana Prikryl joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Anne Carson’s “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions,” and her own poem “Thirty Thousand Islands.”

Nick Laird joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop's “The Moose,” and his own poem “Feel Free.”

Monica Youn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Afaa Michael Weaver's "Passing Through Indian Territory," and her own poem “Goldacre.”

Andrea Cohen joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Philip Levine's "The Mercy," and her own poem “Major to Minor.”

Stephen Dunn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Donald Justice's "There is a gold light in certain old paintings," and his own poem “History.”

J. D. McClatchy joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Merrill's "164 East 72nd Street," and his own poem “CaĞaloĞlu.”

Ellen Bass joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” and her own poem “Reincarnation.”

Meghan O'Rourke joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Ashbery's "Tapestry,” and her own poem “Apartment Living."

Calvin Trillin joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Ogden Nash's "Autres Bêtes, Autres Mœurs” and his own poem "Oh, Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has to End This Way?"

Rosanna Warren joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s “Bear,” and her own poem “Man in Stream.”

Sophie Cabot Black joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Donald Hall’s “The Ship Pounding,” and her own poem “Chemotherapy.”

Matthea Harvey joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss W. S. Merwin’s “Vixen,” and her own poem “Everything Must Go.”

Michael Robbins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss “Myrtle,” by John Ashbery, and his own poem “Country Music.”

Ada Limón joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Jennifer L. Knox’s “Pimp My Ride” and her own poem “State Bird.”

Robert Pinsky joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses” and a poem of his own.

Major Jackson joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Derek Walcott’s “In Italy” and a poem of his own.

Rowan Ricardo Philips joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Nick Laird’s “Feel Free” and a poem of his own.

Timothy Donnelly joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Fortress” and a poem of his own.

Stephen Burt joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Liz Waldner’s “Sad Verso of the Sunny _______.”

Maureen McLane joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Liz Waldner’s “The Sovereignty and the Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed.”

James Richardson joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss W. S. Merwin’s “A Single Autumn.”

Rae Armantrout joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Susan Wheeler’s “The Split.”

Lucie Brock-Broido reads and discusses with host Paul Muldoon a poem by Franz Wright and poem of her own.

Jennifer Michael Hecht reads Lucie Brock-Broido.

Yusef Komunyakaa reads a poem by Marilyn Hacker, as well as one of his own poems, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Anna McDonald reads a poem by Kathleen Graber, as well as one of her own poems, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Michael Dickman reads Ellen Bryant Voigt and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Sharon Olds reads Rodney Jones and her own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

John Ashbery reads Charles Simic and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Tracy K. Smith reads a poem by Kevin Young and her own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Philip Levine reads a poem by Ellen Bass and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.