Philip Levine, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate from 2011-2012, reads and discusses with Paul Muldoon “What Did I Love” by Ellen Bass on the poetry podcast by The New Yorker.
“There is such a sense of ritual about [‘What Did I Love’]. And such a clarity of purpose . . . I found it so powerful and complex . . . such a strange and haunting collection of feelings and attitudes and it was so exquisitely done, everything was so precisely viewed. . . . She’s a poet with terrific power.”—Philip Levine
Ellen Bass joins Kevin Young to discuss “Quahogs,” by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem “Because”.
Nicole Sealey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bass’s poem “Indigo” and her own poem “A Violence.” Sealey is the executive director at the Cave Canem Foundation and the author of the poetry collection “Ordinary Beast.”
Ellen Bass joins Paul Muldoon on The New Yorker Poetry Podcast to read and discuss Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” and her own poem “Reincarnation.”
Ellen Bass Reading “The Small Country” as in The New Yorker
Ellen Bass Reading “The Orange-and-White High-Heeled Shoes” as in The New Yorker
Ellen Bass Reading “Reincarnation” as in The New Yorker
Garrison Keillor Reading “French Chocolates”
Garrison Keillor Reading “Gate C22”
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Ellen Reading “Relax” from Like a Beggar
Ellen Reading “The Morning After” from Like a Beggar