Maya C. Popa Reads Brenda Shaughnessy
The New Yorker: Poetry
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ποΈ 25 March 2026
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Summary
Maya C. Popa joins Kevin Young to read βArtless,β by Brenda Shaughnessy, and her own poem βThe World Was All Before Them.β Popa is the author of βWound Is the Origin of Wonderβ and βAmerican Faith,β the latter of which won the North American Book Prize. Her third collection, βIf You Love That Lady,β will be published by W. W. Norton this July. Popa serves as the poetry editor of Publishers Weekly, and teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs at New York University.
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| 0:39.2 | Hi, you're listening to the New Yorker Poetry Podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Kevin Young, poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine. |
| 0:46.6 | On this program, we invite a poet to select a poem from the New Yorker Archive to read and discuss. |
| 0:52.6 | Then, they read one of their own poems |
| 0:55.0 | that's been published in the magazine. |
| 0:57.2 | Today, my guest is Maya C. Popa. |
| 0:59.7 | She's the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder |
| 1:02.7 | and American Faith, which won the North American Book Prize. |
| 1:06.4 | Her third collection, If You Love That Lady, |
| 1:09.9 | will be published by W.W. Norton this July. She's the poetry |
| 1:14.0 | editor of Publishers Weekly and teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs at New York University. |
| 1:21.0 | Maya, welcome. Thanks for joining. Thank you so much for having me, Kevin. So the first poem you've |
| 1:25.5 | chosen to read is Artless by Brenda Shaughnessy. |
| 1:28.7 | What was it about this poem that drew your eye when you're looking through the archive? |
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