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Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 4 p.m.

Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to read \u201cThe Moon and the Yew Tree,\u201d by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem \u201cCliffhanging.\u201d Seshadri is a poet whose work has been honored with the James Laughlin Award and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His latest book is \u201c3 Sections,\u201d and he recently became the poetry editor of\xa0The Paris Review.