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Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Her latest book is “A Doll for Throwing.”

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  José Antonio Rodríguez Reads Naomi Shihab Nye

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  Ada Limón Reads Carrie Fountain

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  Donika Kelly Reads Mary Oliver

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  Richie Hofmann Reads Henri Cole

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  Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright

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  Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

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  Dorothea Lasky Reads Louise Bogan

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  Diane Mehta Reads Eavan Boland

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  Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

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  David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

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  Kate Baer Reads Ellen Bass

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  Tributaries: A Conversation with Robin Coste Lewis

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  Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

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  Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

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  Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges