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Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Kevin Young.
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Special Feature: Major Jackson reads Clint Smith on The Slowdown
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 slowdownshow.org and listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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José Antonio Rodríguez Reads Naomi Shihab Nye
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.
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Ada Limón Reads Carrie Fountain
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.
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Donika Kelly Reads Mary Oliver
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.” Kelly is the author of two poetry collections, and the recipient of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, she teaches at the University of Iowa.
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Richie Hofmann Reads Henri Cole
Richie Hofmann joins Kevin Young to read “Twilight” by Henri Cole, and his own poem “French Novel” Hofmann is the author of two collections of poetry and the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
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Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Learning to Read,” by Franz Wright, and her own poem “What’s Poetry Like?”
Avis des utilisateurs
They’re all my favourite
Tonight, it’s Donika Kelly, giggling
Mary Olivering
What a poet you are Donika!
And you, Kevin
always saying verbs I’ve never thought of
like trucks
thank you
thank you so much
for this gossipy
poetry pause
ahhhh
my heart is much better
and warm
thank you
First rate
Kevin Young delivers a truly enriching experience. I adore this podcast. I listen on my walk to work. It informs, calms, entertains. Well done.
Kevin Young is The Best
Love this program and I follow it avidly. What a great format to hear my favourite poets reading the poems they love and their own work. Kevin Young is an excellent host! Deeply knowledgeable and able to meet his guest exactly where they are - and across the widest range of voices. Viva Kevin Young!