Hi, you're listening to The New Yorker Poetry Podcast.

I'm Kevin Young, poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine.

This year, the New Yorker turns 100 years old, and to celebrate the occasion,

we're publishing an anthology, a century of poetry in The New Yorker, 1925 to 2025.

On today's program, I'll be discussing the anthology with Deborah Garrison, an editor at Knav,

who's worked closely with me in the New Yorker team on this exciting project.

Many of Deb's own poems have been published in the magazine, a few of which appear in the

anthology, and she was also on the editorial staff at The New Yorker for several years.

And full disclosure, she was my editor for, has it been 25 years now?

Deb, welcome.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Kevin.

So we wanted to start out just giving listeners a sense of where this anthology came from. And I remember it's

something you and I had talked about and dreamed about because we both fell in love with the 1969

yellow paperback anthology, The New Yorker Book of Poems. That's how I came to the New Yorker,

essentially. And as I write in the introduction for the book, you know, I bought the copy, I think,

in like a town crier or B. Dalton or some bookstore in Kansas, and I still have my copy.

You know, it has little neat underlines. I think I don't underline as neatly anymore in ink,

which I don't do anymore either. But I very much was thinking of that anthology when David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, asked me to edit it. And I remember he asked me, would you have any interest? And I think I said, only since I was 15 years old, have I wanted to think about this powerful magazine and what this century meant? And so one of the first things that came to mind is the structure because I didn't want to go front to back.

Those who will get the book soon, I imagine, will get to see the ways that it's in these theme sections.

And it kind of follows a day, starting with morning all the way through the next day.

And then those are interspersed with some of

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