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Poetry in America
Poetry In America Season 3 Preview
Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Ríos to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more. Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.
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Contemplate the physical—and figurative—journeys charted by all immigrants.
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Explore the transformation of America’s long tradition of urban verse by hip hop artists.
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Explore Galway Kinnell's poem with E.O. Wilson, Robert Hass, Laura McPhee and other guests
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Explore Gwendolyn Brooks's poem with John McCain, Anna Deavere Smith, and other guests.
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Explore Robert Pinsky's poem with Stuart Weitzman, Johnson Hartig, and the poet himself.
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Explore W.H. Auden's poem with guests Samantha Power, David Brooks, and Peter Sacks.
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“What happens to a dream deferred?” Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, and others weigh in.
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Can a building have a soul? Frank Gehry, Zhang Xin, Robert Polito, and others weigh in.
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Explore Ginsberg's poetry with Bono, US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and others.
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Explore Hayden's poem with Joe Biden, Elizabeth Alexander, Angela Duckworth, and others.
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Can basketball be poetic? NBA players Shaq, Pau Gasol, and Shane Battier weigh in.
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Host Elisa New explores Emily Dickinson's poem with Cyntha Nixon, Yo-Yo Ma, and others.