Poetry Off the Shelf show

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.

Join Now to Subscribe to this Podcast
  • Visit Website
  • RSS
  • Artist: Poetry Foundation
  • Copyright: ℗ & © 2020 Poetry Foundation

Podcasts:

 Some Words for a Newborn Daughter | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Hannah Gamble and Roger Reeves talk about girlhood and growing up in the Pentecostal Church. 

 Poets We've Lost | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Remembering and celebrating some of the poets who died in 2015

 Explicit Lyrics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Erika L. Sánchez and Jacob Saenz talk about sex in music and poetry.

 All Artists Are Dogs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

James Merrill envisions the figure of the artist through the ears of a dog

 Social Media, Race, and Disney Princesses | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Franny Choi and Saeed Jones blend poetry and culture.

 A Very Short, Very Famous Poem | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Looking back at Robert Creeley's “I Know a Man”

 A Great Poet of Love and War | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Yehuda Amichai's poetry in translation, 15 years after death

 The Poet and the Riot | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown
 Ten Years Later | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina remembered in poems

 Making the Case for Poetry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Inviting classroom fun through songs and speeches

 For Love of Russia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poems by Anna Akhmatova set to music by Iris DeMent

 The Poetry Inside of Words | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A look at Paul Celan's later poems

 Red, White, and Gray | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Two diverging views of the 4th of July

 Poems to Read at Gay and Lesbian Weddings | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Celebrating queer love and same-sex marriage.

 Fathers and Sons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Two very different poems for Father's Day

Comments

Login or signup comment.