Meghan O'Rourke Reads Max Ritvo

Meghan O’Rourke joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Poem to My Litter (newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/poem-to-my-l…),” by Max Ritvo, and her own poem “Sectioned (newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/sectioned-me…).” O’Rourke is the author, most recently, of the New York Times best-seller “The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (amazon.com/dp/0399573305),” a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Her other books include the best-selling memoir “The Long Goodbye (amazon.com/dp/1594485666)” and three poetry collections, including “Sun in Days (amazon.com/dp/0393356663),” named a Top Ten Poetry Book of 2017 by the New York Times. She has also edited two anthologies, “The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery (amazon.com/dp/1324105690)”—which was released earlier this month—and “A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Lockdown (amazon.com/dp/030025735X).” She is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review.

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