April Bernard Reads John Ashbery

April Bernard joins Kevin Young to read “A Worldly Country (newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/a-worldly-co…),” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “Beagle or Something (newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/30/beagle-or-so…).” Bernard is the author of two novels and six poetry collections—including “Blackbird Bye Bye (amazon.com/Blackbird-Bye-April-Bernard/dp/0679…),” which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and “The World Behind the World (amazon.com/World-Behind-Poems/dp/1324036206),” which was published in 2023. She’s a professor of English and creative writing at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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