The New Yorker Poetry Podcast

Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins Kevin Young to discuss ." 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 " ." Balakian's latest book is "Ozone Journal," which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.  

Craig Morgan Teicher joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Forrest Gander’s poem “ .” Teicher is a poet and critic whose collection "The Trembling Answers" received the 2018 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.  His latest book is "We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress."

Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton's poem " ,” both Lannan Literary Selections; the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry, she directs the creative writing program at New York University.

Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poem " ". Akbar is the author of the poetry collection “Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” as well as the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2018 Levis Reading Prize.