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:
If a poem is about something that never happened, does that mean it isn't true?
The American way of life makes for an unpromising ecosystem for the poet. Or does it?
Jane Hirshfield reads two short poems: "Of: An Assay" and "The Envoy."
Paul Giamatti reads "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman and Charlotte Maier reads "Hymn" by A.R. Ammons.
Donald Hall reads his poem "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville," and Alfred Molina reads David Ignatow's "For My Daughter in Reply to a Question."
Gerald Stern and Alice Friman Remember Old Loves.
What Richard Wilbur saw when he saw it coming
What do sex, weddings, and professional wrestling have in common?
Readings of two poems in memory of Stanley Kunitz; one written by his friend Mark Doty, the other written by Kunitz himself.
Poems about mothers by Sharon Olds and Cornelius Eady.
Journalist Mark Danner and poet Jane Hirshfield talk about Nobel Prize winner Czelaw Milosz.
A reading of "The Power of a Question," by Gabriel Preil, and an interview with the translator, Leon Wesieltier.
Tom Sleigh reads his poems "Fable" and "Space Station."
A reading of C.K. Williams's poem "On the Metro."
W.S. Di Piero discusses Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi," with a reading of the poem by Paul Giamatti.
