The New Yorker: Poetry

By WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Arts

What's The New Yorker: Poetry about?

Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

4.5

276 ratings

Download our free app to listen on your phone

LAST EPISODE

Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia...

10.31.2019

Vijay 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 ...

The New Yorker: Poetry episodes:

10.31.2019 Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath Vijay 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 ...
09.19.2019 Eliza 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: ...
08.28.2019 Ariel Francisco Reads James Wright Ariel Francisco joins Kevin Young to read "By a Lake in Minnesota," by James Wright, and his own poem "Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing." Francisco is a poet and translator who published his ...
07.17.2019 Campbell McGrath Reads Czeslaw Milosz Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem, “The Human Heart.” McGrath has published several poetry collections and received fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. His ...
06.19.2019 Natasha Trethewey Reads Charles Wright Natasha Trethewey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Charles Wright's poem "Toadstools," and her own poem "Repentance." Trethewey, a former United States Poet Laureate, is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American ...
05.22.2019 Safiya Sinclair Reads Natalie Diaz 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 ...
04.17.2019 Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin 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, ...
03.20.2019 Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke 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.
02.20.2019 Craig Morgan Teicher Reads Forrest Gander Craig Morgan Teicher joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Forrest Gander’s poem “Son” and his own poem, also titled “Son.” Teicher is a poet and critic whose collection "The Trembling Answers" received the 2018 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from ...
11.30.2018 Deborah Landau Reads Anne Sexton Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton's poem "Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman" and her own poem "Solitaire." Landau's poetry collections include “The Uses of the Body” and “The Last Usable Hour,” both Lannan ...
10.17.2018 Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poem "Groundhog" and his own poem "What Use is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around". Akbar is the author of the poetry collection “Calling a Wolf a ...
09.19.2018 Nick Flynn Reads Zoë Hitzig Nick Flynn joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Zoë Hitzig’s poem “Objectivity as Blanket" and his own poem “The King of Fire.” Flynn's latest poetry collection is “My Feelings"; he will publish two new books, "Stay" and "I Will ...
08.21.2018 Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska Catherine Barnett joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Wislawa Szymborska's poem "Maybe All This" (translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Barańczak) and her own poem "Son in August." Barnett is the author of the poetry collections ...
07.27.2018 Nicole Sealey Reads Ellen Bass 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."
06.20.2018 Tiana Clark Reads Natasha Trethewey Tiana Clark joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Natasha Trethewey's poem "Repentance," and her own poem, "Nashville." Tiana Clark is the author of the chapbook "Equilibrium," which won the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Prize. Her first full-length book of ...
05.23.2018 Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz Discuss “Envelopes of Air” 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.
03.21.2018 Marie Howe Reads Lucie Brock-Broido 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."
02.21.2018 Meena Alexander Reads Gerald Stern Meena Alexander joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Gerald Stern’s poem “Adonis," and her own poem “Kochi by the Sea.”
01.17.2018 Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman Terrance Hayes joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman's poem "Fire" and his own poem “New York Poem."
12.20.2017 David Lehman Reads John Ashbery David Lehman joins Kevin Young to read and discuss John Ashbery's Poem "Worsening Situation," and his own poem "Stages on Life's Way."
11.15.2017 Tracy K. Smith Reads Matthew Dickman Tracy K. Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman’s poem “Minimum Wage," and her own poem “Declaration.”
10.18.2017 Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Sharon Olds’ poem “Her Birthday as Ashes in Seawater,” and his own poem “The Infinite.”
09.20.2017 Danielle Chapman Reads Zbigniew Herbert 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."
08.16.2017 Stephen Mitchell Reads Richard WIlbur 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.
07.19.2017 Erica Jong Reads John Updike Erica Jong joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's poem "The City Outside," and her own poem "Dear Keats."
06.21.2017 Lia Purpura Reads Carl Phillips Lia Purpura joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Carl Phillip's poem "White Dog," and her own poem "First Leaf."
05.20.2017 Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney Tom Sleigh joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Seamus Heaney’s poem “In the Attic” and his own poem “The Fox.”
04.19.2017 Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald Andrew Motion joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Alice Oswald’s poem “Evening Poem” and his own poem “Waders.”
03.15.2017 Mary Karr Reads Terrance Hayes Mary Karr joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Terrance Hayes’s poem “Ars Poetica with Bacon” and her own poem “Face Down.”
02.15.2017 Kevin Young Reads John Berryman Kevin Young joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Berryman’s poem “A Sympathy, A Welcome” and his own poem “Oblivion.”
01.18.2017 Brenda Shaughnessy Reads C.D. Wright 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.”
12.21.2016 How Do You Fact-Check a Poem? Parker Henry joins Paul Muldoon to discuss fact checking poetry for The New Yorker.
11.16.2016 Jonathan Galassi Reads Frederick Seidel 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.”
10.19.2016 Amit Majmudar Reads Christopher Reid Amit Majmudar joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Christopher Reid’s “The Confusions,” and his own poem “Invocation.”
09.21.2016 Eileen Myles Reads James Schuyler Eileen Myles joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Schuyler’s “White Boat, Blue Boat,” and her own poem “Dissolution.”
08.17.2016 Joyce Carol Oates Reads John Updike Joyce Carol Oates joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike's “A Lightened Life,” and her own poem “This Is the Season.”
07.20.2016 Billy Collins Reads Eamon Grennan Billy Collins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Eamon Grennan’s “Sea Dog,” and his own poem “Table Talk.”
06.15.2016 Jana Prikryl Reads Anne Carson Jana Prikryl joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Anne Carson’s “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions,” and her own poem “Thirty Thousand Islands.”
05.18.2016 Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop Nick Laird joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Elizabeth Bishop's “The Moose,” and his own poem “Feel Free.”
04.20.2016 Monica Youn Reads Afaa Michael Weaver Monica Youn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Afaa Michael Weaver's "Passing Through Indian Territory," and her own poem “Goldacre.”
03.16.2016 Andrea Cohen Reads Philip Levine Andrea Cohen joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Philip Levine's "The Mercy," and her own poem “Major to Minor.”
02.17.2016 Stephen Dunn Reads Donald Justice 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.”
01.20.2016 J. D. McClatchy Reads James Merrill J. D. McClatchy joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss James Merrill's "164 East 72nd Street," and his own poem “CaĞaloĞlu.”
12.16.2015 Ellen Bass Reads Adam Zagajewski Ellen Bass joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” and her own poem “Reincarnation.”
11.18.2015 Meghan O'Rourke Reads John Ashbery Meghan O'Rourke joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Ashbery's "Tapestry,” and her own poem “Apartment Living."
10.21.2015 Calvin Trillin Reads Ogden Nash 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?"
09.16.2015 Rosanna Warren Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt Rosanna Warren joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s “Bear,” and her own poem “Man in Stream.”
08.19.2015 Sophie Cabot Black Reads Donald Hall Sophie Cabot Black joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Donald Hall’s “The Ship Pounding,” and her own poem “Chemotherapy.”
07.15.2015 Matthea Harvey Reads W. S. Merwin Matthea Harvey joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss W. S. Merwin’s “Vixen,” and her own poem “Everything Must Go.”
06.18.2015 Michael Robbins Reads John Ashbery Michael Robbins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss “Myrtle,” by John Ashbery, and his own poem “Country Music.”

Older episodes

The New Yorker: Poetry

What's The New Yorker: Poetry about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The New Yorker: Poetry episodes:

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 Reads Natalie Diaz

Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin

Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke

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 Reads Ellen Bass

Tiana Clark Reads Natasha Trethewey

Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz Discuss “Envelopes of Air”

Marie Howe Reads Lucie Brock-Broido

Meena Alexander Reads Gerald Stern

Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman

David Lehman Reads John Ashbery

Tracy K. Smith Reads Matthew Dickman

Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds

Danielle Chapman Reads Zbigniew Herbert

Stephen Mitchell Reads Richard WIlbur

Erica Jong Reads John Updike

Lia Purpura Reads Carl Phillips

Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney

Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald

Mary Karr Reads Terrance Hayes

Kevin Young Reads John Berryman

Brenda Shaughnessy Reads C.D. Wright

How Do You Fact-Check a Poem?

Jonathan Galassi Reads Frederick Seidel

Amit Majmudar Reads Christopher Reid

Eileen Myles Reads James Schuyler

Joyce Carol Oates Reads John Updike

Billy Collins Reads Eamon Grennan

Jana Prikryl Reads Anne Carson

Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Monica Youn Reads Afaa Michael Weaver

Andrea Cohen Reads Philip Levine

Stephen Dunn Reads Donald Justice

J. D. McClatchy Reads James Merrill

Ellen Bass Reads Adam Zagajewski

Meghan O'Rourke Reads John Ashbery

Calvin Trillin Reads Ogden Nash

Rosanna Warren Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt

Sophie Cabot Black Reads Donald Hall

Matthea Harvey Reads W. S. Merwin

Michael Robbins Reads John Ashbery

Other shows like The New Yorker: Poetry: