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:
Producer Marcie Sillman profiles poet Linda Bierds.
Richard Wilbur talks about his translation of Mallarme's "The Tomb of Edgar Poe."
Marilyn Nelson reads two of her poems.
Readings of "And Day Brought Back My Night," by Geoffrey Brock, and "Hostess," by Tony Hoagland.
Live readings of two John Ashbery poems by Billy Collins and David Shapiro, from a celebration of Ashbery's poetry put on by The New School in New York City.
Producer Wesley Weissberg interviews poets and critics about June Jordan's legacy and rap's place in poetry.
Translator Michael Hofmann in conversation about Bertolt Brecht's poem, "Of Poor B.B.," read here by Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg.
Jane Hirshfield reads her poems "Heat" and "Autumn Heat."
A reading of "One Afternoon," by Joanie Mackowski.
Three very short poems, by John Updike, Emperor Hadrian and an anonymous erotic Sanskrit poem.
A portrait of poet Samuel Menashe, produced by Emily Botein.
Charlotte Maier reads "Consolation," by Wislawa Szymborska, and a conversation with her translator Clare Cavanagh.
Acclaimed poet Donald Hall reads and talks about two of his poems, "White Apples," and "The Man in the Dead Machine."
Two readings by Tony-nominated actor Alfred Molina: a reading of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and "A Pedestrian" by Amit Majmudar.
