Meghan O'Rourke: 2008
Meghan O'Rourke is a poetry editor at The Paris Review, and a culture critic and advisory editor at Slate. This recording from our 2008 Seminar captures O'Rourke's crisp and elegant reading of several poems from her first collection, Halflife (2007), including "Peep-Show," "Sleep," "Descent," "Spectacular," "Inventing a Horse," "Halflife," "Troy," and "Hunt;" and two newer poems, "Ariadne" and "Grief." From KWLS 2008: New Voices. (15:44) / 7.2 MB
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This recording is being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2008 Meghan O'Rourke. Used with generous permission from Meghan O'Rourke.
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