Poetry in America

Celebrated guests join Elisa New for a lively discussion of poems by renowned poets.

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    S4 Ep8 |
    Play hooky with Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems.” Poets and NYC-lovers join host Elisa New.
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    Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

    S4 Ep7 |
    Poet Martín Espada worked manufacturing legal pads, and the job is burned into his memory.
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    Emperor of Ice Cream, Motive for Metaphor

    S4 Ep6 |
    Murray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens.
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    Hill Country

    S4 Ep5 |
    Drive through West Texas with Tracy K. Smith, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and host Elisa New.
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    July in Washington

    S4 Ep4 |
    David Axelrod, Bill Kristol and Andrea Mitchell read Robert Lowell with Elisa New.
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    Mushrooms, Weakness and Doubt

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    Consider the poetics, and politics, of fungi with poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan.
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    Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur

    S4 Ep2 |
    Read the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New.
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    Phillis Wheatley: To the University

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    Poems by Wheatley with Amanda Gorman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Richard Blanco, and more.
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    Sonnet IV; I shall forget you presently, my dear, by Millay

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    Leslie Jamison, Olivia Gatwood, & more read a sonnet by Millay with host Elisa New.

About Poetry in America

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.

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