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Podcast: The New Yorker: Poetry
Episode: Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt
Description: Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigtâs poem "Groundhog" and his own poem "What Use is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around". Akbar is the author of the poetry collection âCalling a Wolf a Wolf,â as well as the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2018 Levis Reading Prize.
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