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:
Hannah Gamble and Roger Reeves talk about girlhood and growing up in the Pentecostal Church.
Remembering and celebrating some of the poets who died in 2015
Erika L. Sánchez and Jacob Saenz talk about sex in music and poetry.
James Merrill envisions the figure of the artist through the ears of a dog
Franny Choi and Saeed Jones blend poetry and culture.
Looking back at Robert Creeley's “I Know a Man”
Yehuda Amichai's poetry in translation, 15 years after death
The Poet and the Riot
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina remembered in poems
Inviting classroom fun through songs and speeches
Poems by Anna Akhmatova set to music by Iris DeMent
A look at Paul Celan's later poems
Two diverging views of the 4th of July
Celebrating queer love and same-sex marriage.
Two very different poems for Father's Day