In Episode 2 of Multi-Verse, poet Wendy Xu reads her poem “A Sound Not Unlike a Bell,” and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the poem’s themes of family, migration, and revision as a practice of love. It’s a special opportunity to hear a poem of this length performed in a single sitting—sit back and feast your ears.

“A Sound Not Unlike a Bell” was first published in Wendy Xu’s new book, The Past (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), and is available for purchase here.