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Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry Off The Shelf

Producer Curtis Fox explores the diverse world of contemporary American poetry with readings by poets, interwith critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken ...

The Power of Barbie

The Power of Barbie

How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.

06/26/09

Honor Thy Father's Day

Honor Thy Father's Day

Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.

06/17/09

Out of the Poetic Bubble

Out of the Poetic Bubble

How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.

06/11/09

Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink

Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink

Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage.

06/02/09

Light in the Service of Loneliness

Light in the Service of Loneliness

Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.

05/27/09

Bees and Monstrous Babies

Bees and Monstrous Babies

Eleanor Wilner on species pity and political power run amok.

05/19/09

Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense

Christian Bök performs the Dada sound-poetry behind the Talking Heads.

05/04/09

An Essential American Poet

An Essential American Poet

Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine's poems.

04/27/09

What If It Doesn't Make Sense?

What If It Doesn't Make Sense?

Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.

04/15/09

Telephony Is So Retro It's Cool

Telephony Is So Retro It's Cool

Al Filreis brings Dial-a-Poem back to life at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.

04/03/09

Hatless in Heavy Economic Weather

Hatless in Heavy Economic Weather

John Surowiecki talks about why his 2004 poem "The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats" sounds like it was written yesterday.

03/16/09

The Hebrew Bible Has No Soul

The Hebrew Bible Has No Soul

Robert Alter on his radical reworking of the book of Psalms

03/09/09

Manifesto You

Manifesto You

Mary Anne Caws talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E.Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis that first appeared in Poetry magazine.

03/03/09

Manifesto You

Manifesto You

Mary Anne Caws talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E.Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis that first appeared in Poetry magazine.

03/03/09

More Than Meets the I

More Than Meets the I

Rae Armantrout gets personal without the pronoun.

02/19/09

When the Weary Blues Met Jazz

When the Weary Blues Met Jazz

Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.

02/11/09

The Poet and the Saint

The Poet and the Saint

The untold story of Czeslaw Milosz's rancor toward a Holocaust hero.

01/29/09

Romantic or Plain Erotic

Romantic or Plain Erotic

Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.

01/26/09

Romantic or Plain Erotic

Romantic or Plain Erotic

Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.

01/26/09


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