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2024-04-24

  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 S... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-04-17

  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/202... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-03-20

  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 boo... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-02-21

  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... 		  Kevin Young author
2024-01-24

  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 Fellows... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2023-11-22

  Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright

Bianca Stone joins Kevin Young to read “Learning to Read,” by Franz Wright, and her own poem “What’s Poetry Like?” Stone has published several books of poetry and poetry comics, including, most recently, “What Is Otherwise Infinite.” She runs the Ruth ... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2023-10-18

  Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Evie Shockley joins Kevin Young to read “Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove,” by Rita Dove, and her own poem “the blessings.” Shockley is the author of six poetry collections and the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Ru... 		  Kevin Young author
2023-09-20

  Dorothea Lasky Reads Louise Bogan

Dorothea Lasky joins Kevin Young to read “Three Songs,” by Louise Bogan, and her own poem “The Green Lake.” Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including her forthcoming collection “The Shining.” She’s the co-creator, with Alex Di... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2023-08-16

  Diane Mehta Reads Eavan Boland

Diane Mehta joins Kevin Young to read “The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” by Eavan Boland, and her own poem “Landscape with Double Bow.” Mehta is the author of the poetry collection “Forest with Castanets” and the forthcoming “Tiny Extravaganzas,” and th... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2023-07-26

  Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

Adrienne Su joins Kevin Young to read “The Longing to Be Saved,” by Maxine Kumin, and her own poem “The Days.” Su is a professor and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, whose work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Push... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author