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Valzhyna Mort Reads Victoria Amelina and Wisława Szymborska

Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin Young to read “Testimonies” by Victoria Amelina, which Mort translated from the Ukrainian, and “Map,” by Wisława Szymborska, which was translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh. Mort’s collection “Music for the Dead and Resurrected” won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Fund.

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  Jim Moore Reads Jane Mead

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  Amber Tamblyn Reads Didi Jackson

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  Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark

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  Amy Woolard Reads Charles Wright

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  Special Feature: Major Jackson reads Clint Smith on The Slowdown

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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