Terry Gross

Paul Muldoon reads: Ode ii-10 (to Licinius) (23 B.C.) by Horace; A Normal Day by Dorothy Muldoon; September 1, 1939 (1940) by W.H. Auden

For today's entire show we excerpt portions of The New Yorker magazines benefit program Beyond Words in which New Yorker writers read the work of others on-stage. (Taped Thursday, Oct. 11 at Town Hall in New York City). Beyond Words benefits The September 11th Fund. David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker introduces the readings.

Amitav Ghosh reads: Farewell (1997) by Agha Shahid Ali.