A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 Lectures is it too much to

is it too much to ask for one little cat in return

plus musings on the avian population and the ethics of birdwatching

and Dai may have a sound no one can match

And everyone has to do what the king says

they give their own speculations about the distant future

A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 Lectures is it too much toEdited by the magazines poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glck, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesaw Miosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith,