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AudioFrom Poetry LecturesDecember 2012
An informal conversation remembering the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, with Lloyd Schwartz, Frank Bidart, Rosanna Warren, Gail Mazur, and Megan Marshall. Conducted at Harvard University in March 2012,...
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AudioFrom Essential American PoetsSeptember 2011
Recordings of poet Adrienne Rich, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 2002 at the Audio Workshop in London
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AudioFrom Poetry LecturesJune 2013
Vera Pavlova from Russia and Valzhyna Mort from Belurus speak with the director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Ilya Kaminsky.
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poemBy Kevin Youngis music??? is menoff early from work??? is waitingfor the chance at the chairwhile the eagle claws holesin your pockets??? keepingtime??? by the turningof rusty fans??? steel flowers withcold breezes??? is having nothingbetter to do??? than guess at the yearsof...
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poemBy Nikki Giovanni
This is for the Pullman Porters who organized when people said
they couldn’t. And carried the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago
Defender to the Black Americans in the South so they would
know they were not alone. This is for the Pullman Porters...
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Featured Poet: Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had...
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Poem GuideBy Katherine Robinson
The creation of life and the masterful merging of metaphor and reality.
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AudioFrom Poetry Off the ShelfMarch 2016
The legacy of Plath's posthumous classic
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AudioFrom Poetry Off the ShelfJanuary 2008
Burning at a hundred and three with Sylvia Plath.
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AudioFrom Poetry Off the ShelfMarch 2018
The second episode of our special series exploring poetry and the women's movement looks at several books in the 1960s and '70s that fought for a place for women.
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