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:
Talking with the new poet laureate.
What New Yorkers really think about poems on the subway.
A reading by Naeem Murr from his essay "My Poet." From the July / August issue of Poetry.
A conversation with Francisco Aragón, editor of the anthology The Wind Shifts. Audio for this podcast courtesy of e-poets.
Stephen Burt on the qualities shared by hip-hop and 18th century verse.
Secret terrorist communications or just plain poetry?
Two satirical poems by Thomas Lux.
Helen Vendler on last poems by Stevens and Merrill.
Jeremy Richards samples slam poets whose poems work in silence or aloud.
Author David Browne looks at "poetic" popular music from the '70s to the present.
A conversation with blogger and poet Shanna Compton.
Charles Simic reads and discusses Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert.
Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey reads from and discusses her work.
Poems about parenthood and sleep deprivation.
Jazzing up Billy Collins.
