Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar

Ellen Bass joins Kevin Young to read “Quahogs (newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/11/quahogs),” by Frank X. Gaspar, and her own poem “Because (newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/because).” A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass has received the Lambda Literary Award for poetry, the Pablo Neruda Prize for poetry, and fellowships from the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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