Poetry Lectures
By Poetry Foundation
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Podcast Description
Talks given by notable scholars and critics on poets, poetry, and their intersections with other art forms. Features recordings from historic archives and live events.
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Nikola Madzirov: International Poets in Conversation Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov and Ilya Kaminsky discuss the poetics of w | -- | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Poetry and Piano Poets Reginald Gibbons, Rachel Jamison Webster, Christina Pugh, and Ed Roberson are accompanied on piano by Ma | -- | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Three Native American Poets The Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute hosts a conversation between Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Linda H | -- | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kwame Dawes Kwame Dawes reads poems from four of his books at the Art Institute of Chicago in January 2008. | -- | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raúl Zurita: International Poets in Conversation A conversation between Chilean poet Raúl Zurita and American poet Forrest Ga | -- | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rita Dove Rita Dove speaking at the Key West Literary Seminar. | -- | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aleš Šteger: International Poets in Conversation The Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute hosts Aleš Šteger who reads from his w | -- | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Levine Poet Philip Levine reads from his own work. | -- | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blas Falconer and Gina Franco The second half of a 2008 reading featuring four Latino poets, as part of the American Perspectiv | -- | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francisco Aragón and Brenda Cárdenas The first half of a 2008 reading featuring four Latino poets, as part of the American Pe | -- | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don Paterson on Robert Frost In November 2010, Don Paterson delivered the 22nd Aldeburgh PoetryFestival's annual poet-on-poet l | -- | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams speaks at Harvard University in 1951. | -- | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jahan Ramazani Jahan Ramazani presents examples of non-European post-colonial poetry that relate to the language of song, pray | -- | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brenda Hillman: Stronach Memorial Lecture Brenda Hillman delivers a 2006 talk entitled "Cracks in the Oracle Bone: Teaching Cer | -- | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Sacks: Stronach Memorial Lecture Peter Sacks delivers a 2007 talk entitled "'You Only Guide Me by Surprise': Poetry and t | -- | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney "in conversation" with Michael Laskey, fellow poet and co-founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. | -- | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks speaking in 1990 at Poetry Day in Chicago. | -- | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Billy Collins Two-term poet laureate Billy Collins speaks at the Key West Literary Seminar. | -- | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky speaking on "Modernism and Memory" at the Key West Literary Seminar. | -- | 5/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary Karr and Stuart Dybek Mary Karr and Stuart Dybek read from their own work and discuss how writing poetry relates to wri | -- | 4/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Five Muslim American Poets: Part II Literary discussion featuring readings by poets Raza Ali Hasan, Ibtisam Barakat, Fady Jou | -- | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Five Muslim American Poets: Part I Literary discussion featuring readings by poets Raza Ali Hasan, Ibtisam Barakat, Fady Jouda | -- | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Doty Mark Doty speaking at the Key West Literary Seminar. | -- | 2/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carl Sandburg Archival recording of Carl Sandburg from 1956. | -- | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Helen Vendler Helen Vendler discusses the poet Robert Lowell. | -- | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
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