Edward Hirsch Reads Gerald Stern

The New Yorker: Poetry by The New Yorker

Mar 26, 202531:05Arts

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 In...

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