Tim Hunt gestures as he makes a point to Eliza New and Gillian Osborne, as they discuss poetry on the zoom webinar.

Exploring American Humanity and American Nature through the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Herman Melville, and Lorine Niedecker

December 8, 2022 Leave a comment

The mythology of the vast “untouched” frontier has inspired American authors from James Fenimore Cooper to Thomas Pynchon. But, the natural world explored in the poetry of the early 20th century American poet Robinson Jeffers is not one of heroism or horses. Gillian Osborne – Instructor and Curriculum Designer for Poetry in America, Director of Curriculum at ASU’s Center for Public Humanities, and scholar of 19th century American and environmental literature – compares Jeffers’s reverence for American nature, and his Californian “cultural nationalism,” to famous American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s relationship with the natural world in the century before.  … Read more
Sir Jonathan Bate reads from his anthology "Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind" against a green leafy backdrop.

Our reimagined Nautilus channel: What happens when you add Art+Science? 

August 23, 2022 Marissa Grunes Leave a comment

Three years ago, Poetry in America launched an online channel with the science magazine Nautilus, dedicated to bringing together science and poetry. This summer, as Poetry in America’s educational programs settle into their new home base at Arizona State University’s Center for Public Humanities, the Nautilus channel is once again breaking new ground.  … Read more
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