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A portal into 1950s New York City, Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems” have the feel of playing hooky: of roaming from museums to Central Park and sneaking into cinemas. Choreographer …
Long before he won the National Book Award, Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making legal pads. Espada, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, economists Natasha …
Modernist poet Wallace Stevens balanced his long career as an insurance executive with a thrilling life of the imagination. Actor Murray Bartlett, ice cream maker Gus Rancatore, cognitive scientist …
God drives down from the mountains behind the wheel of a Jeep, in this poem by Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. poet laureate. Smith illuminates the ambrosial bounty of …
Against the backdrop of 1964 Washington D.C., Robert Lowell wrote this timeless reflection on the contradictions between American idealism and American policy. Journalists Andrea Mitchell and Justin Worland, political …
Poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan take the peripheral status of the fungal kingdom as an invitation to consider the scientific knowns and unknowns, and cultural significance, of …
Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures. Theater of War …
In 1770s Boston, Phillis Wheatley was at the same time enslaved and an international celebrity: a writer who mastered the most persuasive rhetoric of the day to publish enduring …
Eight new half-hour episodes of Poetry in America will premiere in April 2024 for National Poetry Month. Episodes focus on unforgettable American poems, which guests read and discuss with …
Eight new half-hour episodes of Poetry in America will premiere in April 2024 for National Poetry Month. Episodes focus on unforgettable American poems, which guests read and discuss with Elisa New, the series creator, host and director. Each poem in Season Four serves as a vehicle into a broader vision of America – taking us from colonial Boston to the halls of Congress, from Texas Hill Country to Central Park – to explore the work of Phillis Wheatley, Joseph Brodsky, Sylvia Plath, Kay Ryan, Robert Lowell, Tracy K. Smith, Martín Espada, and Frank O’Hara.
Season Four guests include: David Axelrod, Murray Bartlett, Richard Blanco, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Frank Bruni, Bryan Doerries, Martín Espada, Serita Frey, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Amanda Gorman, Gabrielle Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Kay Redfield Jamison, Bill Kristol, Jill Lepore, Pastor Terry Mackey, Andrea Mitchell, Mark Morris, Eileen Myles, Robert Pinsky, Maria Popova, Laurie Santos, Natasha Sarin, Clint Smith, Tracy K. Smith, John Turturro, Andrew Weil, M.D., Rachael and Vilray, and more.
Interested in learning more? Poetry in America offers a wide range of courses, all dedicated to bringing poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world. Check out our course offerings
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