Kevin Young

Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to discuss “Gathering Apricots,” by Milosz, and her own poem “Failed Essay on Privilege.”

Purkert joins Kevin Young to discuss “Notes on the Reality of the Self,” by Graham, and his own poem “News.”

Dawes joins Kevin Young to discuss “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” by Derek Walcott, and his own poem “Before Winter.”

Bass joins Kevin Young to discuss “Quahogs,” by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem “Because.”

Bang joins Kevin Young to discuss her translation of the second part of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Shane McCrae joins Kevin Young to discuss his poetry sequence “Jim Limber in Heaven.”

Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to discuss “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem “Cliffhanging.”

Eliza Griswold joins Kevin Young to discuss her poetry sequence "First Person"

Ariel Francisco joins Kevin Young to read "By a Lake in Minnesota," by James Wright, and his own poem "Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing."

Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem, “The Human Heart.”

Natasha Trethewey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Charles Wright's poem "Toadstools," and her own poem "Repentance."

Safiya Sinclair joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Natalie Diaz's poem "From the Desire Field" and her own poem "Gospel of the Misunderstood."

Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins Kevin Young to discuss "Rain Light" by W.S. Merwin, and her own poem "Heart of Darkness."

Peter Balakian joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Theodore Roethke's poem "In a Dark Time" and his own poem "Eggplant."

Craig Morgan Teicher joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Forrest Gander’s poem “Son” and his own poem, also titled “Son.”

Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton's poem "Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman" and her own poem "Solitaire."

 Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poem " Groundhog" and his own poem "What Use is Knowing Anything if No One is Around."