January 2009
Poems by C.K. Williams, Kim Addonizio, Anne Winters; previously unpublished Langston Hughes, introduced by Arnold Rampersad; Michael Hofmann on Bishop and Lowell.
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12.30.08: A LONG ENGAGEMENT
Taking up a theme she explored in poems such as “The Fish” and “The Armadillo,” “The Moose” meditates on the transcendent power of nature, and its often startling intrusion into our modern lives. The poem also maps the terrain of Nova Scotia, where the young Bishop was taken to live with her maternal grandparents after being effectively orphaned by her father’s early death and her mother’s institutionalization for mental illness.
Taking up a theme she explored in poems such as “The Fish” and “The Armadillo,” “The Moose” meditates on the transcendent power of nature, and its often startling intrusion into our modern lives. The poem also maps the terrain of Nova Scotia, where the young Bishop was taken to live with her maternal grandparents after being effectively orphaned by her father’s early death and her mother’s institutionalization for mental illness.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
12.30.08: A LONG ENGAGEMENT
A close reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Moose.”
12.23.08: POETS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA
An interview with 2009 Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander.
12.16.08: MICHAEL ROSEN
An interview with the Children’s Laureate of Britain.
12.09.08: DISMAL ROCK
A review of Davis McCombs’ latest poetry collection.
12.02.08: THE NURSE OF ENCHANTMENT
A profile of balladeer Helen Adam.
11.25.08: THE POEM AS TESTAMENT
A review of Sarah Hannah’s last poetry collection.
11.18.08: A CONVERSATION WITH KEATS
A review of the latest biography of the poet John Keats.
11.11.08: OUT OF THIS WORLD
An interview with poet Albert Goldbarth.
11.03.08: THE OUTSIDER ARTIST
A profile of new U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan.
10.28.08: THE BEE'S KNEES
A profile of the new Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman.
10.21.08: MEET THE BEETLES
A reading guide to Linda Pastan’s poem “The Deathwatch Beetle.”
10.14.08: CRAZY LOVE
A profile of poet Philip Whalen.
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.
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