A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 Lectures and guaranteed salvation for humanity

and guaranteed salvation for humanity

plus musings on the avian population and the ethics of birdwatching

and Dai may have a sound no one can match

Or is the evil of non-humans actually less threatening because it's so strange and unaccountable

A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 Lectures and guaranteed salvation for humanityEdited by the magazines poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glck, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesaw Miosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith,