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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Turning to poetry in the wake of the BP oil spill.
Allen Edwin Butt discusses his poem “If Briefly.”
Elliott Vanskike teaches his children to become lifelong readers of poetry.
Emily Warn marvels at Dorothea Grossman’s charming, irreverent poems.
Jean Valentine talks about the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner.
Would you rather hear a poet read her work or an actor?
Perusing one man's poetry pileup.
Kazim Ali discusses Agha Shahid Ali's ghazal "Tonight."
The open secret behind Michael Field’s flowery Victorian verse.
Remembering Lilly Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton on the occasion of her death.
Celebrating Black History Month with William Waring Cuney, Cornelius Eady, and Thomas Sayers Ellis.
Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter.
Ron Silliman discusses two erasure poems created by eliminating parts of an existing text.
James Tate at the Key West Literary Seminar.
