The New Yorker: Poetry

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith

Toi Derricotte joins Kevin Young to read “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “I give in to an old desire.” Derricotte is a poet, memoirist, and co-founder, with Cornelius Eady, of the literary organization Cave Canem. Her honors include the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement; in 2020, she received the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal, for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.

• 

  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