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Log in to Watch OnlinePoems about Motherhood by Sharon Olds and Bernadette Mayer
S3 Ep6 |Elisa New, Emily Oster, Sharon Olds, & Bernadette Mayer explore poems on motherhood.
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To Prisoners by Gwendolyn Brooks
S1 Ep9 |Explore Gwendolyn Brooks's poem with John McCain, Anna Deavere Smith, and other guests. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Shirt by Robert Pinsky
S1 Ep8 |Explore Robert Pinsky's poem with Stuart Weitzman, Johnson Hartig, and the poet himself. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
S1 Ep7 |Explore W.H. Auden's poem with guests Samantha Power, David Brooks, and Peter Sacks. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Harlem by Langston Hughes
S1 Ep6 |“What happens to a dream deferred?” Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, and others weigh in. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Skyscraper by Carl Sandburg
S1 Ep5 |Can a building have a soul? Frank Gehry, Zhang Xin, Robert Polito, and others weigh in. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Hymmnn and Hum Bom! by Allen Ginsberg
S1 Ep4 |Explore Ginsberg's poetry with Bono, US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and others. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
S1 Ep3 |Explore Hayden's poem with Joe Biden, Elizabeth Alexander, Angela Duckworth, and others. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Fast Break by Edward Hirsch
S1 Ep2 |Can basketball be poetic? NBA players Shaq, Pau Gasol, and Shane Battier weigh in.
About Poetry in America
In the second season of Poetry in America, guests join Elisa New for a lively and immersive discussion of the poems of Marilyn Chin, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Sondheim, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman. POETRY IN AMERICA premieredApril 4, 2020 (check local listings).
