Blog Post Poetry in America featured in Broadway World by Gideon Leek On April 4th, 2018, Broadway World’s Macon Prickett wrote an enthusiastic article on the incipient release of Season One of Poetry in America.
Blog Post Elisa New featured by Brandeis University by Gideon Leek On April 19th, 2022, in honor of National Poetry Month, Anne Lawrence Guyon interviewed Elisa New for Brandeis Alumni Stories. The online piece, “To Be Nobody But Herself,” celebrates…
Course Poetry in America [Non-Credit]: Dickinson This free, not-for-credit online course explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most distinctive and prolific poets. But, while Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, she chose never…
Episode Hymmnn and Hum Bom! Joined by rock star Bono, former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and by a chorus of clergy and religious practitioners, host Elisa New tackles two of Ginsberg’s most…
Episode To Prisoners Senator John McCain, playwright and activist Anna Deavere Smith, poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Li-Young Lee, and four exonerated prisoners discuss poetry’s special resonance for those behind bars.
Course Poetry in America for High-Schoolers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop Poetry in America, in partnership with the National Education Equity Lab, Arizona State University, and ASU Prep Digital, is pleased to the for-credit course Poetry in America: The City…
Episode Skyscraper Host Elisa New considers the rise of the skyscraper--and the emergence of the modernist poem--in an episode featuring celebrated architect Frank Gehry, Chinese visionary and real estate developer Zhang…
Episode The Gray Heron In this environmentally-themed, visually splendid episode, Elisa New is joined by evolutionary biologist E.O Wilson, poet Robert Hass, environmental photographer Laura McPhee, naturalist Joel Wagner, and children at a…
Blog Post Poetry in America featured in Psychology Today by Brie Martin On May 30th, 2020, Psychology Today featured a blog post on Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem" and the current protests, referencing (and encouraging readers to watch) our Season 1 episode…