Poetry Off the Shelf show

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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  • Artist: Poetry Foundation
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Podcasts:

 A Break from it All | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Looking back in a meditative mood around Thanksgiving.

 The Poetry of Politics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poetry's possible liberty or obligations in the wake of the US midterm elections.

 Poetry and/or Advertising | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What copywriting and poetry have in common.

 Poetry Rituals | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Exploring exercises to be more present in your life and writing.

 The Past is Present | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Rereading the great modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.

 Poems from the Inside | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

During the current nationwide prison strike, we look back at Etheridge Knight's influential poems he wrote while incarcerated.

 This Poet Never Gets Old | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

John Keats's life and body of work, then and now.

 The Robots are Coming to Class | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Reading and exploring poetry along with students this school year.

 Retelling the American Story | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Tracy K. Smith discusses her new book and her tenure as current US poet laureate.

 The Man is There ... in the Tape | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Remembering Donald Hall and his advocacy for archival audio recordings of poets.

 Poems Don't Need Their Papers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

For July 4, we talk about US immigration, Central American refugees, and poems across borders with Javier Zamora.

 Goooooaaaalllll! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poems about soccer, aka football, aka the beautiful game, in time for the World Cup.

 Poetry Live to Tape | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

When poets used tape recorders to compose not for the page, but for the audio environment.

 Prosey Poems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Maureen McLane on semi-autobiographical epic poems, narrative melodrama, and the dissociation of sensibility.

 Burning for Justice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Exploring the work of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner Martín Espada.

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