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:
Looking back in a meditative mood around Thanksgiving.
Poetry's possible liberty or obligations in the wake of the US midterm elections.
What copywriting and poetry have in common.
Exploring exercises to be more present in your life and writing.
Rereading the great modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.
During the current nationwide prison strike, we look back at Etheridge Knight's influential poems he wrote while incarcerated.
John Keats's life and body of work, then and now.
Reading and exploring poetry along with students this school year.
Tracy K. Smith discusses her new book and her tenure as current US poet laureate.
Remembering Donald Hall and his advocacy for archival audio recordings of poets.
For July 4, we talk about US immigration, Central American refugees, and poems across borders with Javier Zamora.
Poems about soccer, aka football, aka the beautiful game, in time for the World Cup.
When poets used tape recorders to compose not for the page, but for the audio environment.
Maureen McLane on semi-autobiographical epic poems, narrative melodrama, and the dissociation of sensibility.
Exploring the work of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner Martín Espada.