Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Ríos to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more. Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.
Episodes
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Episode 8, Season 4
StepsPlay hooky with Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems.” Poets and NYC-lovers join host Elisa New.24:42 -
Episode 7, Season 4
Who Burns for the Perfection of PaperPoet Martín Espada worked manufacturing legal pads, and the job is burned into his memory.25:21 -
Episode 6, Season 4
Emperor of Ice Cream, Motive for MetaphorMurray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens.25:43 -
Episode 5, Season 4
Hill CountryDrive through West Texas with Tracy K. Smith, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and host Elisa New.25:21 -
Episode 4, Season 4
July in WashingtonDavid Axelrod, Bill Kristol and Andrea Mitchell read Robert Lowell with Elisa New.25:21 -
Episode 3, Season 4
Mushrooms, Weakness and DoubtConsider the poetics, and politics, of fungi with poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan.25:21 -
Episode 2, Season 4
Six Years Later, Epitaph for a CentaurRead the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New.25:21 -
Episode 1, Season 4
Phillis Wheatley: To the UniversityPoems by Wheatley with Amanda Gorman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Richard Blanco, and more.25:21
