April Bernard joins Kevin Young to read “
A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “
Beagle or Something.” Bernard is the author of two novels and six poetry collections—including “
Blackbird Bye Bye,” which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and “
The World Behind the World,” which was published in 2023. She’s a professor of English and creative writing at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York.
