Episode you can say that again, billie Billie Holiday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit” winds beneath the unsettling, satiric humor of Evie Shockley’s poem “you can say that again, billie.” Shockley, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, historian Robin…
Blog Post Elisa New on Big Think: “Why Reading Literature is a Form of Therapy” by Gideon Leek On April 22, 2020, Big Think President Peter Hopkin’s moderated a live YouTube discussion with PIA Host Professor Elisa New.
Episode You and I Are Disappearing Yusef Komunyakaa, Senator John Kerry, director Julie Taymor, composer Elliot Goldenthal, and Vietnam War veterans discuss the awful mix of beauty and horror in war.
Blog Post Poetry in America featured in The Paris Review by Brie Martin On July 10, 2020, Poetry in America was featured in The Paris Review's weekly round-up of staff picks. Alongside the work of novelists Marie NDiaye and Halle Butler, essayist…
Blog Post Amplify and Poetry in America Release New Grade 8 ELA Content Featuring Jamaal May by Gideon Leek Eighth grade, a turning point in adolescence, is a great time to be introduced to contemporary poetry. Reading poetry can feel daunting for newcomers, but at Poetry in America,…
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 Elisa New Reviews African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song for Harvard Magazine by Gideon Leek On Friday August 13th, Harvard Magazine published a review by Professor Elisa New of Kevin Young’s 1,000-plus page anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song. A…
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 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.