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Why is contemporary poetry so political?

Our poetry editor, Greg Kohl's, will be here to talk about the year in poetry.

Which books should your kids read this season?

Our children's books editor, Maria Rousseau, will be here to discuss the year's best books for kids.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the water world are reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times. I'm Pamela Paul.

I'm Pamela.

Joining us now, my colleague, Greg Kohl's, who many of you know from what we're reading.

He's our senior editor here, but he is also secretly our poetry editor and so joins us this week

in that role. Hi, Greg. Hi, Pamela.

This week, you put together an issue entirely about poetry.

Entirely about poetry, specifically about political poetry, because that's kind of where all the

heat is in poetry at the moment. Poetry feels like it's having a real resurgence in the culture

at large and at the center of that resurgence is specifically political poetry.

And so I wanted to put together an issue that looked at that.

So to be completely transparent here, what happened was I said to Greg, let's have a poetry issue

in December and why don't you come up with the theme or what see what's out there in terms of

what's being published and suggest some ideas around which this issue might be based in previous

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