Sophie Herron on their selection: Last July, I read John McPhee’s Basin and Range for the first...
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Kenzie Allen on her selection: Growing up, I spent precious time each summer on a fire lookout,...
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Alexandra Zuckerman on her selection: In her book, On Beauty and Being Just, it is as if, in...
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Mag Gabbert on her selection: I read Kathryn Nuernberger's essay "A Thin Blue Line," which...
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Ina Cariño on her selection: Aracelis Girmay’s “You are Who I Love,” first published in 2017,...
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Tracie Morris on her selection: I have the great pleasure of sharing small excerpts from Brent...
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Read By: Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips on his selection: The poem "This Lime-tree Bower my Prison'' was written...
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Sheila Heti on her selection: I chose a chapter from Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday,...
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Hi! Read By is taking a vacation this month. We'll be back in July with more episodes, from more...
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Tobias Wolff on his selection: I read three poems, two by my longtime friend and colleague,...
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Howard Norman on his selection: I read two diary entries by the iconic haiku master, Masaoka...
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Merve Emre on her selection: At the beginning of March, I helped to organize a group reading of...
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Chris Kraus on her selection: A friend recommended The Executioner’s Song to me when I started...
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Paul Tran on their selection: The handprint is one of the earliest examples of...
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Valzhyna Mort on her selection:\r\n On April 26th, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in...
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Paisley Rekdal on her selection:\r\n Charming may not be a word commonly associated with...
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Jane Hirshfield on her selection:\r\n “The Lives of the Poets”\r\n Poems are about our human...
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Stacy Schiff on her selection:\r\n In a contest between the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard and...
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Read By: Anniversary Compilation
Notes on the selections:\r\n It’s been a year. That’s been the chorus for the past couple of...
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Special Re-issue: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Producer\'s note: We return this week to Diana Khoi Nguyen\'s reading of poems from Asian poets...
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