Blog Post CHURCHILL FELLOWSHIP 2023 – POETRY RESEARCH PROJECT by Hannah Stanislaus I am Hannah Maria Stanislaus and I have chosen Poetry in America for my Churchill Fellowship 2023 research project.
Blog Post SXSW EDU 2024: Join Us for Teaching Literature & Civics with Phillis Wheatley by Gideon Leek What can the 18th-century Black, enslaved teenage poet Phillis Wheatley teach us today about how language can be wielded artfully to create power?
Blog Post WORLD Channel Poetry Month Marathon 2024 by Gideon Leek The first three seasons of Poetry in America will air on the WORLD Channel in honor of National Poetry Month. Tune in to your local WORLD Channel 2-5pm ET / 11am-2pm…
Episode The Wound-Dresser Explore Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser,” set in the battlefield infirmaries and operating theaters of 1860s Washington, D.C. Actor David Strathairn, playwright Tony Kushner, composer Matthew Aucoin, opera star Davóne…
Blog Post Poetry in America featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune by Gideon Leek On Thursday, March 7, 2024, The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Pam Kragen reported on the Robert Frost Society’s poetry conference in honor of his Sesquicentennial (his 150th birthday!). The celebration…
Episode The Language of the Brag and The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters Sharon Olds’s “The Language of the Brag” and Bernadette Mayer’s “The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters” are exuberant, boisterous tributes to motherhood. Both poets join host…
Blog Post Poetry in America Featured Guests by Leah Reis-Dennis Poetry in America believes that anyone can have a conversation about a poem. Here are some of the distinguished guests who have spoken with us so far.
Episode The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Motive for Metaphor Modernist poet Wallace Stevens balanced his long career as an insurance executive with a thrilling life of the imagination. Actor Murray Bartlett, ice cream maker Gus Rancatore, cognitive scientist…
Episode Urban Love Poem Join poet Marilyn Chin, memoirist Maxine Hong Kingston, investor Randy Komisar, and Bay Area residents to discuss Chin’s love poem to San Francisco.