Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine

Erika Meitner joins Kevin Young to read “ What Work Is ,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “ To Gather Together .” Meitner’s books include “ Useful Junk ” and “ Holy Moly Carry Me ,” which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is currently a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Program Fellow, and she’s the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine is an episode from The New Yorker: Poetry by The New Yorker.

This episode is 36:27 long.

This episode was published on May 21, 2025.

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