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:
Robert Lowell’s former students look back on their poetry classes with an American master.
As one of the U.S.'s greatest patriots and most trenchant critics of his time, Whitman never lost hope in his country.
The late Carolyn Kizer on the erotic side of love
Ron Padgett on having his poems appear in Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson.
Listening to some of the poets who died this year
Two additional poets react to the U.S. presidential election
Responses to last week's U.S. presidential election
What poetry has to say about substance abuse, and how some poems can help.
Making peace with the grief and release of death
The different ways of reading a classic American poem
Over three million high school students have participated in this recitation contest.
Giving children the permission to be free.
The many successes of Cave Canem.
Looking at Seamus Heaney's debut, Death of a Naturalist
Robert Hayden's harrowing narrative poem on the slave trade
