Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young

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The New Yorker poetry editor and host of The New Yorker poetry podcast, Kevin Young, delivered this talk, “How to Write a Hoax Poem,” at the 2014 Tin House Writers Workshop. He discusses some of the more notable modern poetry hoaxes, glimpsing into the secret history of the poem as something conceived to tempt or […] The post Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young appeared first on Tin House.

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