For decades, The New Yorker has published a poem on or around Christmas — a look back at the events and people that have shaped the past year, generally light and fun; but in more difficult years it touches on quite serious themes as well.

The humorist Frank Sullivan wrote the first “Greetings, Friends” back in 1935. Roger Angell wrote the poem for many years.  And staff writer Ian Frazier has been writing it since 2012. Frazier reads his 2017 “Greetings, Friends” in this podcast bonus of the New Yorker Radio Hour.