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:
Ernest Hilbert and Curtis Fox discuss the late, great W.D. Snodgrass's formalism, dark humor, and passionate reading style.
On the occasion of Inger Christensen's death, Naja Marie Aidt and Pejk Malinovski read and discuss her work.
Hear who Elizabeth Alexander would have picked and her thoughts on Frost and other past inaugural poets.
Elizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry.
The editors of Poetry magazine recommend their favorite books from this year.
How Zukofsky and the language poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own.
Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander offer presidential advice.
Albert Goldbarth shows why he won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.
Hear Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman on her trade secret: total recall of childhood.
Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.
Hear Denise Levertov's scathing Vietnam poem "Life at War," and find out why it made her friend Robert Duncan declare war on her.
How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.
Was he really the best Chinese poet of his time?
Steve Almond recalls his beret-wearing days as a poet, and why it's a good thing he turned to prose.
