Notes on the selections:
It’s been a year. That’s been the chorus for the past couple of weeks, and we're here, saying it too; it feels too notable, too hard-won, too full of loss, too much not to note. This episode is a compilation of some of the poems recorded over 62 episodes: a selection of poems that seem to speak to the intensely individual and communal experiences of grief and hope, of outrage and awe in the past year. Links to the poems and the original episodes below.
From “Read By: Terrance Hayes” - “Things No One Knows,” by Wanda Coleman
https://www.92y.org/archives/read-by-terrance-hayes
https://bookshop.org/books/wicked-enchantment-selected-poems-9781574232462/9781574232370
From “Read By: Louise Erdrich” - “Manhattan Is a Lenape Word,” by Natalie Diaz
https://www.92y.org/archives/read-by-louise-erdrich
https://bookshop.org/books/postcolonial-love-poem-poems/9781644450147
From “Read By: Douglas Kearney” - “Big Thicket, Pastoral,” by Douglas Kearney
https://www.92y.org/archives/read-by-douglas-kearney
https://bookshop.org/books/buck-studies/9780986437373
From “Read By: Ada Limon” - “From the Other Side” and “The Dwelling Places” by Alejandra Pizarnik
https://www.92y.org/archives/read-by-ada-limon
https://bookshop.org/books/extracting-the-stone-of-madness-poems-1962-1972/9780811223966?aid=609
From “Read By: Tina Chang” - "Things I Didn't Know I Loved,” by Nâzım Hikmet
https://www.92y.org/archives/read-by-tina-chang
https://www.perseabooks.com/poems-of-nazim-hikmet
Music: “Shift of Currents” by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0
