Poetry in America

Poetry In America Season 3 Preview

Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Ríos to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more. Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.

Poetry In America Season 3 Preview

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  • Sonnet IV; I shall forget you presently, my dear, by Millay: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sonnet IV; I shall forget you presently, my dear, by Millay

    S3 E8 - 25m 41s

    In 1920s Greenwich Village, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote sonnets that toppled clichés of love and romance. To probe this unsentimental break-up poetry, host Elisa New speaks with musician Natalia Zukerman, poet Olivia Gatwood, New York Times advice columnist Philip Galanes, writer Leslie Jamison, scholar of Greenwich Village Jeffery Kennedy, and a chorus of National Student Poets.

  • Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos

    S3 E7 - 25m 14s

    Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos, follow wolves, jackrabbits, and other animals across the harsh Great Plains and Sonoran Desert. Both poets join wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, film director Chris Eyre, Native American scholars Philip Deloria and Stephanie Fitzgerald, and a chorus of students to discuss how the poems call back difficult histories of human migration in the American west.

  • Poems about Motherhood by Sharon Olds and Bernadette Mayer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Poems about Motherhood by Sharon Olds and Bernadette Mayer

    S3 E6 - 25m 38s

    Sharon Olds’s “The Language of the Brag” and Bernadette Mayer’s “The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters” are exuberant, boisterous tributes to motherhood. Both poets join host Elisa New, actor Donna Lynne Champlin, writer Emily Oster, activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, obstetrician Lorna Wilkerson, and co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves to explore the miracle, and mess, of creating new life.

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