Poetry Off the Shelf: Episodes
Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
Elizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry.
How Zukofsky and the language poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own.
Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander offer presidential advice.
Albert Goldbarth shows why he won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.
Albert Goldbarth shows why he won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.
Listening to Poets on Record.
Hear Yusef Komunyakaa read and reflect on the history of war, from the Roman era to Vietnam.
Philip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.
Philip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.
Hear Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman on her trade secret: total recall of childhood.
Hear Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman on her trade secret: total recall of childhood.
Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.
A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.
Hear Denise Levertov's scathing Vietnam poem "Life at War," and find out why it made her friend Robert Duncan declare war on her.
Hear Denise Levertov's scathing Vietnam poem "Life at War," and find out why it made her friend Robert Duncan declare war on her.
How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.
How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.
Was he really the best Chinese poet of his time?