Kevin Young

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1,056 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Aug

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The New Yorker: Poetry · Mark Wunderlich Reads Spencer Reece · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

Ermadina

Red and red.

Yeah, exactly.

Flakes and spakes.

I mean that that must have been a that was a a powerful one to get right.

Yeah.

But I also think uh you were talking about metaphor.

I always think of metaphor as as saying these two things

are not just alike, but they're the same.

And that equivalence that a metaphor does, like this becomes that or this is that is why I think that's so powerful.

And, you know, we start with this simile that we t mentioned, an onion, you know, and then the sewing machine, which stick out.

And then they kind of go away.

There's no more

Of these similes no more kind of comparisons until the

the volta, that end, that leap, that that last couplet.

It's very Shakespearean, but it's also to me totally his own and that it's so powerful there.

you're anywhere in Rhode Island, you're near someone else in Rhode Island.

I'm I'm curious too.

The two things that strike me is, you know, the tradition I'm in.

You know, certainly I grew up with pastors and preachers in my family, um, but also, you know, thinking of Reverend Dr.

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