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Honor Thy Father's Day
from Poetry Off the Shelf on June 17, 2009
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Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.
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Out of the Poetic Bubble
from Poetry Off the Shelf on June 11, 2009
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How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.
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What If It Doesn't Make Sense?
from Poetry Off the Shelf on April 15, 2009
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Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.
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Hatless in Heavy Economic Weather
from Poetry Off the Shelf on March 16, 2009
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John Surowiecki talks about why his 2004 poem "The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats" sounds like it was written yesterday.
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Remembering Denmark's Greatest Poet
from Poetry Off the Shelf on January 12, 2009
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On the occasion of Danish poet Inger Christensen's death, a few of her fans gather together to read and discuss her work.
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Seven Essential Dreams Revisited
from Poetry Off the Shelf on July 22, 2008
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Steve Almond recalls his beret-wearing days as a poet, and why it's a good thing he turned to prose.
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Poetry Is Too Literary
from Poetry Off the Shelf on June 20, 2008
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Listening to Grace Paley read her poems.
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The Thought of No One Listening Anymore
from Poetry Off the Shelf on May 19, 2008
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Talking to Philip Schultz, the other Pulitzer winner.
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Is That a Chicken in the Background?
from Poetry Off the Shelf on April 28, 2008
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From the Fishouse captures poets in their natural environments.
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Activist Poetry That Won't Make You Run the Other Way
from Poetry Off the Shelf on March 10, 2008
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Rigoberto González on Juan Felipe Herrera.
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Robert Hass
from Poetry Off the Shelf on November 15, 2007
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The 2007 National Book Award winner reads three poems.
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“To Wear Words in the Plainest Light”
from Poetry Off the Shelf on October 11, 2007
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Anne Stevenson on Welsh prosody, Elizabeth Bishop, and winning the Neglected Masters Award.
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Tough Poem? Call the Poet
from Poetry Off the Shelf on September 06, 2007
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Dean Young talks about writing toward the invisible reader.
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A Partial History of Our Stupidity
from Poetry Off the Shelf on August 24, 2007
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Two poems (and some commentary) by Edward Hirsch.
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