James Cervantes: "A Phosphorescence"

Recorded by Abe Louise Young for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 11, 2025. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org 

Recorded by Douglas Kearney for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 10, 2025. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org 

Recorded by Chet’la Sebree for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 9, 2025. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org 

Forrest Gander joins Kevin Young to read “Privacy,” by Ada Limón, and his own poem “Post-Fire Forest.” Gander is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his collection “Be With.” 

Anna and Annie discuss the winners of the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize and the National Book Awards. Our book of the week is The Magician by multi-award winning author Colm Tóibín. His latest novel, based on the life of Thomas Mann, is a New York Times Notable Book ... Show More

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Labyrinth,” by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. HolyWhiteMountain is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and grew up on the Blackfeet Reser ... Show More

Many people say their experience of time changes after they have children, a phenomenon that Diego Báez captures in “Inheritance.” In this poem, a past, present, and future starring the same child shift ceaselessly in a parent’s mind, like photos flipped through in an album, dots ... Show More

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Edward Hirsch joins Kevin Young to read, “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on a Fire Escape.” Hirsch's honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honor, and a National Jewish ... Show More

Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “The Friend,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “The Vulnerables,” which was published last year. 

This week, we bring you a live interview with Garth Greenwell, conducted in October 2024 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Garth talks about growing up in Kentucky assuming that he would die young, the teacher who gave him a path toward being an artist, and the doggedness with which ... Show More

Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven books of fiction ... Show More

OSCARS season may be over, but The Cine-Files aka Steve Morris and John Rocha are still celebrating it in their new series THE TEN DAYS OF OSCARS where they revisit a Best Picture nominee in every episode. Today, they revisiit and discuss ANATOMY OF A FALL from director JUSTINE T ... Show More