October 2008
Poems by Sarah Lindsay, Adrian Blevins, Craig Arnold, John Repp, Eric Ekstrand, Laura Kasischke, D.A. Powell, John Hennessy, Jill Osier, Maurice Manning, Derek Sheffield; and more
The Poetry Media Service offers free content about poetry to newspapers and online publications. Its book reviews, profiles, interviews, and poetry columnists will engage a general readership in poetry. New releases, approximately 750 words each, will be posted here weekly. Sign up here.
10.07.08: AT HOME WITH POEMS
The homeschoolers' approach of using poetry to foster broader learning is supported by scientific research. "Writing and listening to poetry, for example, sharpen a child's developing ability to hear (and ultimately to segment) the smallest sounds in words, the phonemes," notes cognitive neuroscientist and Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf in Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
The homeschoolers' approach of using poetry to foster broader learning is supported by scientific research. "Writing and listening to poetry, for example, sharpen a child's developing ability to hear (and ultimately to segment) the smallest sounds in words, the phonemes," notes cognitive neuroscientist and Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf in Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems selected and introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Nationally syndicated to 4 million readers in more than 60 publications every week, the column is published by Poetry Foundation Media Services with administrative support provided by the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/
An exploration of the role of poetry in society and profiles of contemporary poets featured on the highly acclaimed nightly PBS news program. A partnership between the Poetry Foundation and the NewsHour, the poetry series includes short-form profiles on living American poets and long-form segments on current debates and issues in poetry.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Recently on the Newshour: Mary Jo Bang reads two poems, "The Role of Elegy" and "How Beautiful." Her fifth book Elegy won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Click here for more.
Garrison Keillor recounts the literary highlights of this day in history and reads a poem or two in this beloved radio program. Heard by more than 2 million listeners on more than 300 public radio stations and XM Satellite Radio every day, production and distribution of the program is sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Gerald Stern: Still Burning
Gerald Stern is as much the poet warrior now as when he stunned the poetry world thirty years ago with his book Lucky Life. In that book he first staked out a place for himself and readers that he has continued to make, a place that in his words is "overlooked or ignored or disdained, a place no one else wanted." This short documentary film, illustrated with materials from Stern's own archive, features some of Stern's best known poems. It also includes commentary by poets Ross Gay, Edward Hirsch, Anne Marie Macari, Heather McHugh, and Thomas Lux, each with a unique perspective on Stern as artist and friend. Still Burning is a short film by REMproductions (the Media group of the Lempert Family Foundation) produced in association with the Poetry Foundation.
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POETRY MEDIA SERVICE ARCHIVE
10.07.08: AT HOME WITH POEMS
A short guide for parents on sharing poetry with children.
09.30.08: WHERE THE SIDEWALK BEGINS
A review of Shel Silverstein’s first children’s book.
09.23.08: THE IMPETUOUS POET
A review of Richard Kenney’s new poetry collection.
09.16.08: HUMANIZING ROBOTS—AND VICE VERSA
An interview with poet Matthea Harvey.
09.09.08: THE PLAY OF OPPOSITES
A review of a reissued anthology of late T’ang dynasty poetry.
09.02.08: UNLOVABLE OBJECTS
A review of Cate Marvin’s latest poetry collection.
08.26.08: THE PHRASEOLOGY OF OLD BONES
A profile of poet A.R. Ammons.
08.19.08: ROBERT HASS IN TEL AVIV
The former US poet laureate guest lectures.
08.12.08: A SIGNAL THROUGH THE FLAMES
A review of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s manifesto Poetry As Insurgent Art.
08.05.08: BEARING FALSE WITNESS
A review of William Stafford’s early poems.
07.30.08: FAINT HOPE, EARNED HONESTLY
A review of Sandra McPherson’s latest collection Expectation Days.
07.22.08: THE HEFT OF WORDS
A profile of poet Louis Zukofsky.
07.15.08: NO DEAD-ENDS
A review of Fanny Howe's new collection The Lyrics.
07.08.08: THE GREEN MAN IN CAMELOT
A review of Simon Armitage's new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
07.01.08: TO SEE THE UNIVERSE IN A GRAIN OF SAND
A review of Kathleen Jamie's poetry collection Waterlight.
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