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Podcast: The New Yorker: Poetry
Episode: Adrian Matejka Reads C.D. Wright
Description: Adrian Matejka joins Kevin Young to read โAgainst the Encroaching Grays,โ by C. D. Wright, and his own poem โAlmost Home.โ Matejka is the author of several poetry collections and the graphic novel โLast on His Feet.โ He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, served as the poet laureate of the state of Indiana from 2018 to 2019, and is editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine. His new collection, โBe Easy: New & Selected Poems,โ will be published in March. He lives in Chicago.
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