Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Patricia Lockwood joins Kevin Young to read “ In the Waiting Room ,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “ Love Poem Like We Used to Write It .” Lockwood is the author of the novels “ No One Is Talking About This ” and “ Will There Ever Be Another You ,” along with two poetry collections and a memoir. She has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and she’s a contributing editor at the London Review of Books . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop is an episode from The New Yorker: Poetry by The New Yorker.

This episode is 45:29 long.

This episode was published on Dec 22, 2025.

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