All Episodes

Monica Ferrell Reads Lucie Brock-Broido

Maya C. Popa Reads Brenda Shaughnessy

Adrian Matejka Reads C.D. Wright

April Bernard Reads John Ashbery

Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Traci Brimhall Reads Thomas Lux

Henri Cole Reads Louise Glück

Bruce Smith Reads Mary Ruefle

Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright

Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan

Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine

David St. John Reads Larry Levis

Edward Hirsch Reads Gerald Stern

Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander

Kevin Young and Deborah Garrison Discuss “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker”

Dobby Gibson Reads Diane Seuss

Rae Armantrout Reads Dorothea Lasky

Jim Moore Reads Jane Mead

Amber Tamblyn Reads Didi Jackson

Valzhyna Mort Reads Victoria Amelina and Wisława Szymborska

Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark

Amy Woolard Reads Charles Wright

Special Feature: Major Jackson reads Clint Smith on The Slowdown

José Antonio Rodríguez Reads Naomi Shihab Nye

Ada Limón Reads Carrie Fountain

Donika Kelly Reads Mary Oliver

Richie Hofmann Reads Henri Cole

Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright

Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Dorothea Lasky Reads Louise Bogan

Diane Mehta Reads Eavan Boland

Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

Kate Baer Reads Ellen Bass

Tributaries: A Conversation with Robin Coste Lewis

Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo

Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

Aria Aber Reads Frank Bidart

Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón

“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics

Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith

Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones

Arthur Sze Reads Robert Hass

Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros

Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times

Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins

Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz

Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham

Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar

Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

Shane McCrae Discusses “Jim Limber in Heaven”

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

Ada Limón Reads Jennifer L. Knox

Robert Pinsky Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Major Jackson Reads Derek Walcott

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Reads Nick Laird

Timothy Donnelly Reads Yusef Komunyakaa

Stephen Burt Reads Liz Waldner

Maureen McLane Reads Liz Waldner

James Richardson Reads W. S. Merwin

Rae Armantrout Reads Susan Wheeler

Lucie Brock-Broido reads Franz Wright

Jennifer Michael Hecht Reads Lucie Brock-Broido

Yusef Komunyakaa Reads Marilyn Hacker

Anna McDonald Reads Kathleen Graber

Michael Dickman Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt

Sharon Olds Reads Rodney Jones

John Ashbery Reads Charles Simic

Tracy K. Smith Reads Kevin Young

Philip Levine Reads Ellen Bass