Fiction & Poetry

“Standing at the window, I watch robins clean themselves / in the cement birdbath.”

Everyone loves you here. Most days you are pretty sure of that. Everyone touches you all the time.

The author reads her story from the February 9, 2026, issue of the magazine.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Gold Watch,” which was published in The New Yorker 1980.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “Beagle or Something."

“I watched as she tried on faces / before an evening out.”

“It should be thistle-covered, / a labor of thunder bent / through it.”

The author reads her story from the February 2, 2026, issue of the magazine.

What was the point of keeping all those secrets? Wasn’t your story wasted if nobody knew it?

“What does a single flake know / of its big/little fate?”