Poetry Off the Shelf
Summary: Producer Helena de Groot explores the diverse world of contemporary poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken too seriously.
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Podcasts:
Naomi Shihab Nye talks about a trunk full of treasures, childhood in Palestine, and her grandson's poetic bone.
A look into the various approaches to the U.S. poet laureate position.
On Whitman's bicentennial, a contemporary poet finds a Whitmanic kinship with wonder, language, and the environment.
Marilyn Nelson's poetic legacy, through the eyes of one of her many protégés, Tyehimba Jess.
Two Muslim American poets discuss the intersections between poetry and Ramadan.
Carolyn Forché discusses her memoir of the same title, about her time in pre-civil war El Salvador in the late 1970s.
The life and legacy of Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Reading a trailblazing second-wave feminist poet.
Reading a trailblazing second-wave feminist poet.
Meryl Streep narrates our hour-long radio documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.
Poems in time for Valentine's Day.
A look into Duncan's poems on the centenary of his birth.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Prohibition in the U.S., we discuss drinking poems over a few cocktails.
Remembering and listening to those who died this year.
The centenary of the first volume by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit Victorian experimentalist was posthumously published among the Modernists.
