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

12/22/2025

Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Patricia Lockwood joins Kevin Young to read “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like We Used to Write It.” Lockwood is the author of the novels “No One Is Talking About This” and “Will There Ever Be Another You,” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

45 min
11/26/2025

Traci Brimhall Reads Thomas Lux

Traci Brimhall joins Kevin Young to read “Refrigerator, 1957,” by Thomas Lux, and her own poem “Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It.” Brimhall is the author of five poetry collections, including “Love Prodigal” and “Our Lady of the Ruins,” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

44 min
10/22/2025

Henri Cole Reads Louise Glück

Henri Cole joins Kevin Young to read “Vita Nova,” by Louise Glück, and his own poem “Figs.” Cole is the author of many poetry collections, including “The Other Love.” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

29 min
09/30/2025

Bruce Smith Reads Mary Ruefle

Bruce Smith joins Kevin Young to read “Open Letter To My Ancestors,” by Mary Ruefle, and his own poem “The Game.” Smith, the author of eight poetry collections, including the forthcoming “Hungry Ghost,” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

41 min
08/15/2025

Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright

Garrett Hongo joins Kevin Young to read “T’ang Notebook,” by Charles Wright, and his own poem “On Emptiness.” Garrett Hongo is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including “Ocean of Clouds” and “The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo.” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

42 min
07/23/2025

Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Sasha Debevec-McKenney joins Kevin Young to read “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and her own poem “Kaepernick.” Debevec-McKenney is the author of the new poetry collection “Joy Is My Middle Name.” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

39 min
06/25/2025

Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan

Megan Fernandes joins Kevin Young to read “Half-Life in Exile,” by Hala Alyan, and her own poem “On Your Departure to California.” Fernandes’s books include “I Do Everything I’m Told” and “Good Boys.” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

31 min
05/21/2025

Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine

Erika Meitner joins Kevin Young to read “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “To Gather Together.” Meitner’s books include “Useful Junk” and “Holy Moly Carry Me,” 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Poetry and soul

09/17/2021

vanishingpoet

Quite a marked shift from the original poet to the present. Just as the New Yorker has shifted greatly so does the podcast. Both are knowledgeable and insightful but I hope the New Yorker stays true to art and poetry and not modern political divisions, pseudo activism and identity politics. Poetry tends to the soul not the ego.
Poetic Delight

10/22/2025

Gingiaa

Kevin Young has a magical understanding of poetry and blows it open for me time after time. Things speak through him that I’d never hear without him.
Poetry as political statement

03/09/2025

GrumpyCat01

I am incredibly distracted by the need of poets to be focused primarily on the blackness or the queerness of their “work”. They focus on their uniqueness which is not universal, but is often mediocre art.
Wonderful!

02/28/2025

chocolatecityusa

Beautiful interview with Jericho Brown.