Kevin Young

Her new collection, The Future, was published in March by Four Way Books.

She was born in New Delhi and lives in Vermont.

Monica, welcome.

Thanks for joining me.

I'm so happy to have you.

The first poem we've chosen to read is Caramore by Lucy Brock Broido.

What was it about this particular poem that caught your attention when you were looking through the archives?

Oh, I'm so eager to hear it.

Why don't we listen to the poem?

Here's Monica Farrell reading Caramore by Lucy Brock-Broido.

That was Caramore by Lucy Brock-Broido, which was originally published in the June 13, 1994 issue of The New Yorker.

That was a great reading.

And Lucy was my teacher, too.

So here we are, her students.

But we're all students of, I think, the line she has here, which I really am struck by, again, the slant rhymes and sometimes kind of full rhymes, these kind of unexpected things our listeners might not expect.

No, but it's in couplets, which, you know, is sort of striking.

You can hear them in some ways when she says carnage or they are born to end, frighten.

You know, I'm overemphasizing it.

But you see these butcher predators, these kind of things.

I've heard different things about, you know, how she thought of the couplet.