Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine

May 21, 2025, 8:00 PM39 min

Erika Meitner joins Kevin Young to read “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/03/12/what-work-is">What Work Is</a>,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/to-gather-together">To Gather Together</a>.” Meitner’s books include “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Useful-Junk-American-Poets-Continuum/dp/1950774538">Useful Junk</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Carry-American-Poets-Continuum/dp/1942683626/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RLLJIYC0LP4L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2vwNBIlzWhPVI89mx3qziw.Pye1LbsqwVuq9hpVW08O7uSbx7_tEh98gzAgo3K927k&dib_tag=se&keywords=holy+moly+carry+me&qid=1747754909&s=books&sprefix=holy+moly+carry+me%2Cstripbooks%2C110&sr=1-1">Holy Moly Carry Me</a>,” which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is currently a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Program Fellow, and she’s the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Erika Meitner joins Kevin Young to read “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “To Gather Together.” Meitner’s books include “Useful Junk” and “Holy Moly Carry Me,” which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is currently a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Program Fellow, and she’s the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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