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:
Highlights featuring Reuben Jackson, Brian Gilmore, and A.B. Spellman.
Poetry so bad it's good, plus other verse tragedies.
The poetic legacy of James Schuyler.
Robert Lowell's "July in Washington" puts America in a vegetable context.
Philip Larkin's poem “An Arundel Tomb” shows us what sentimentality looks like the morning after.
Teaching John Donne’s poem “The Sun Rising.”
Eleanor Wilner on Whitman; David St. John on Larry Levis.
Robert Polito on the intersection of Hollywood and God.
How can poetry take on tragedy?
Kevin Young on fried cheese, barber shops, and the hip hop aesthetic of a new generation of African-American poets.
Did the young poetic genius know his history? Who cares if he didn't?
D.A. Powell reads poems from Rupert Brooke and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Christian Wiman discusses the work of the poet whose recent disappearance shocked the poetry world.
A very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem.
How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.
