Henri Cole, the Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, appeared as a guest on The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast, hosted by Kevin Young, the magazine’s poetry editor. In the October 22, 2025, episode, Cole read “Vita Nova,” by Louise Glück, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and his own poem “Figs,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2022 and in A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, 1925-2025 in 2025.