Eight new half-hour episodes of Poetry in America will premiere in April 2024 for National Poetry Month. Episodes focus on unforgettable American poems, which guests read and discuss with Elisa New, the series creator, host and director. Each poem in Season Four serves as a vehicle into a broader vision of America – taking us from colonial Boston to the halls of Congress, from Texas Hill Country to Central Park – to explore the work of Phillis Wheatley, Joseph Brodsky, Sylvia Plath, Kay Ryan, Robert Lowell, Tracy K. Smith, Martín Espada, and Frank O’Hara.
Season Four guests include: David Axelrod, Murray Bartlett, Richard Blanco, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Frank Bruni, Bryan Doerries, Martín Espada, Serita Frey, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Amanda Gorman, Gabrielle Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Kay Redfield Jamison, Bill Kristol, Jill Lepore, Pastor Terry Mackey, Andrea Mitchell, Mark Morris, Eileen Myles, Robert Pinsky, Maria Popova, Laurie Santos, Natasha Sarin, Clint Smith, Tracy K. Smith, John Turturro, Andrew Weil, M.D., Rachael and Vilray, and more.
Interested in learning more? Poetry in America offers a wide range of courses, all dedicated to bringing poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world.
Tune in this April!
Tune in this April!
