Blog Post Elisa New featured on panel at Poetry and Power Symposium by Gideon Leek Did you know that President John F. Kennedy’s final speech, at the dedication of Amherst College’s Robert Frost Library in 1963, hailed Robert Frost as a guardian of democracy…
Blog Post Poetry in America featured in Forbes by Gideon Leek On March 26th, 2018, Michael Alpiner wrote in Forbes’s Travel column about how Poetry in America connects the experience of reading poetry to experiential travel.
Blog Post Poetry in America featured in The Boston Globe by Gideon Leek On April 25th, 2018, The Boston Globe discussed Poetry in America in its "TV Critics Corner." In the article are topics including the state of poetry (Rupi Kaur, the…
Blog Post Westward, Ho! Poetry in America arrives at ASU by Gideon Leek T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland begins: “April is the cruelest month.” In 1996, the American Academy of Poets declared the very same cruel April National Poetry Month, with a winking…
Blog Post Theater of War and Poetry in America present “Those Winter Sundays,” feat. Bill Murray & Moses Ingram by Gideon Leek On January 27, 2021, in the wake of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, partners Theater of War and Poetry in America presented live readings of Robert Hayden’s classic poem “Those…
Blog Post Poetry in America moves to ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College by Gideon Leek I’m thrilled to be joining Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and to be bringing my team’s skills to bear on the important, groundbreaking work the college is doing to…
Episode Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper Long before he won the National Book Award, Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making legal pads. Espada, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, economists Natasha…
Course Poetry in America for Credit This sequence of courses, offered by the Harvard Extension School for undergraduate- or graduate-level credit, chronicles the history of American poetry from the Puritans to the present day. Students…
Course Poetry in America for Teachers: Earth, Sea, Sky This course will help K-12 teachers explore the intersections of literature and science-- and help their students read poems with an eye toward the natural phenomena that inspired them.