Poetry Off the Shelf
Summary: Producer Helena de Groot explores the diverse world of contemporary poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken too seriously.
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Podcasts:
In the '70s, poetry workshops run by women, for women, sprang up in cities around the country. They mirrored what was happening in the women’s movement, and they became communities unto themselves.
Poems about baseball, in time for the World Series.
Meaghan O'Rourke discusses how the experience of illness has informed her poetry.
Poetry magazine publishes a selection of their ‘View from Here’ essays in a new book, Who Reads Poetry.
Ashbery's poems can be a new way of seeing and experiencing things, a "daydream from which there's no obvious exit," an ode to neglected emotions or the insignificant, an inside joke you may or may not be in on, and a reordering of the world and ourselves.
Our back-to-school episode covers alternative approaches to poetry, including student choice.
Matthew Zapruder discusses the role of language and meaning in poetry and his book of criticism, Why Poetry.
Fatimah Asghar on telling the stories that need to be told, in poetry and on television.
A deep look into W.S. Merwin's influential book, which speaks to our moment 50 years after its publication.
Margarita Engle on the subject of her poetry, and her message to young readers.
This year's Lilly Prize winner discusses the intersection of poetry and music, as well as the women's rights and Indigenous rights movements that much her poetry is borne out of.
An appreciation of an underrecognized poet's vision, lyricism, fragments, and humor
A new anthology collects poems addressing our current political climate.
How we use poetry to find meaning and to bring disparate aspects of life together.
Remembering the Nobel Laureate's poetry upon his death, and the commitment to the arts and humanties
