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:
Poems by Mark Doty and Richard Hugo, both about fish.
Something terrible happens, and people want a poem to speak to them about it.
Walt Whitman and the politics of the Civil War.
W.S. Di Piero discusses Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi," with a reading of the poem by Paul Giamatti.
Poetry magazine's Danielle Chapman wants Gwendolyn Brooks to get her due.
Excerpts from an evening of conversation and poetry.
Kim Addonizio on desire, music, and that one time in the kitchen.
Reading Jack Prelutsky.
Three poems about the difficulties of sleep.
Schooltime poems by Gerald Stern and Mary Karr.
Taking Stevens and Pastan into therapy.
Poems about jazz by Yusef Komunyakaa and W.S. Di Piero from Poetry magazine.
Chatting about Dada with Robert Polito.
Dean Young talks about writing toward the invisible reader.
A documentary on the life and work of June Jordan.
