Read By: Tobias Wolff

<p><em>Tobias Wolff on his selection:</em></p> <p>I read three poems, two by my longtime friend and colleague, Eavan Boland, who died last year, a loss that I feel still. There is a tradition in Irish poetry, inflected by the long Independence movement and a certain kind of heroic poetry, that Boland confronts. The third poem is one by John N. Morris, a poem I have carried in my mind since the mid-70s, that has gathered meaning for me as I had my own children, and now grandchildren: the heroism of learning to let go.</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/new-collected-poems-9780393337303/9780393337303"> <em>New Collected Poems</em></a> by Eavan Boland </p> <p><em><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Life-Beside-This-John-Morris/dp/0689106696"> The Life Beside This One</a></em> by John N. Morris</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0</span></p>