Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Her latest book is “A Doll for Throwing.”
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The New Yorker: Poetry Folgen
Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Kevin Young.
Folgen von The New Yorker: Poetry
122 Folgen
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Folge vom 23.12.2019Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio
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Folge vom 22.11.2019Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”Shane McCrae joins Kevin Young to to discuss his poetry sequence “Jim Limber in Heaven,” featured on newyorker.com. McCrae is a poet whose whose work has received such honors as a Whiting Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Folge vom 31.10.2019Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia PlathVijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to read “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem “Cliffhanging.” Seshadri is a poet whose work has been honored with the James Laughlin Award and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His latest book is “3 Sections,” and he recently became the poetry editor of The Paris Review. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Folge vom 19.09.2019Eliza Griswold discusses "First Person"Eliza Griswold joins Kevin Young to discuss her poetry sequence "First Person," featured on newyorker.com. Griswold is a poet and journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2003. She is the author of, most recently, "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America," which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Her new poetry collection, "If Men, Then," will be published in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices