Author: Jim Lehrer
Publisher: PBS
Running Time: 10 Min.
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Poetry: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - PBS Podcast
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A special NewsHour series that couples profiles of contempory poets with reports on news and trends in the world of poetry.
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Weekly Poem: 'Centuries of Ashes'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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Weekly Poem: 'Ports of Sorrow'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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Weekly Poem: 'Root'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 18, 2010
Terrance Hayes is is the author of three books of poems: "Muscular Music" (1999)
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Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
Jeffrey Brown profiles Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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Weekly Poem: 'Our Valley'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Philip Levine is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently "News of the World" (2009). The poem above, "Our Valley," originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Poetry.
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Weekly Poem: 'New Year's'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Robert Creeley (1926-2005) was one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century.
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Russian Poet Pavlova Celebrates Desire in New Collection
Author: PBS NewsHour
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
A profile of Russian poet Vera Pavlova, who will release her first collection of poems in English, "If There is Something to Desire," next month.
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Weekly Poem: 'Mount Kearsarge'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
Donald Hall is considered one of the major American poets of his generation. He has published 15 books of poetry, beginning with "Exiles and Marriages" in 1955. His latest was "White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems" in 2006.
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Weekly Poem: 'From Here to There'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Brad Leithauser is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently, "Curves and Angles" (2006). He has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
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Weekly Poem: 'TV, Evening News'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Dec 07, 2009
Marie Ponsot has published several books of poems, including most recently, "Springing" (2002) and "The Bird Catcher" (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
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Poet Marie Ponsot Celebrating Life at 88
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
A profile of 88-year-old poet Marie Ponsot, who published her sixth collection of poems last month called "Easy."
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Weekly Poem: 'Contracted'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
Marie Ponsot has published several books of poems, including most recently, "Springing" (2002) and "The Bird Catcher" (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
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Weekly Poems: Keith Waldrop, 2009 National Book Award Winner
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Keith Waldrop won the 2009 National Book Award for "Transcendental Studies," a trilogy of collage poems. The two poems below are from "Transcendental Studies."
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Weekly Poem: 'Storm'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Kwame Dawes is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Arts Institute, where he also teaches as distinguished poet in residence.
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Weekly Poems: a Double From the 'Mets Poet'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Frank Messina, also known as the "Mets Poet," is the author of four books of poetry, including "Full Count: The Book of Mets Poetry," released in April, and "Disorderly Conduct," published in 2002.
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Weekly Poem: 'The Golden Window'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems.
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Poet Sherman Alexie Talks 'Faces' and 'War Dances'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Author Sherman Alexie talks about his new book of poetry called "Faces" and his new short story collection, "War Dances."
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Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Pushes Verse for Community Colleges
Author: PBS NewsHour
Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Kay Ryan came into office as an "unlikely" poet laureate, she has said, living a quiet life in California, working away on her refined, compact verse. Now in her second term as the 16th U.S. poet laureate, she has decided on a project to share with the nation.
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Weekly Poem: 'Ode to Mix Tapes'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash. He is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction and poetry, including "Face" and "War Dances," published this year.
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Weekly Poem: 'Domestique'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Heather McHugh was among the recipients of the so-called "Genius Award" (i.e. the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship).
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Weekly Poem: 'If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
Jean Valentine has published 11 books of poetry and is also the editor of "The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor." Last month, she won the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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Albert Goldbarth, Poet at Play
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
Albert Goldbarth discusses his writing, his toy collection and his latest book of poetry, "To Be Read in 500 Years."
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Weekly Poem: 'September, Inverness'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. His books of poetry include "Time and Materials" (2007 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner).
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Profile of 'Genius Award' Winner Heather McHugh
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
A profile of Seattle poet Heather McHugh, who was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship on Tuesday.
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MacArthur Winner McHugh Serves Up the Weekly Poem
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Among today's recipients of the so-called "Genius Award" (i.e. the MacArthur Fellowship) is poet Heather McHugh.
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Conversation: Patti Smith Reflects on the Life of Her Friend, Jim Carroll
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
It was Patti Smith who first encouraged Jim Carroll to blend his poetry with rock 'n' roll, bringing him on stage to perform his work with her band. He went on to form the Jim Carroll Band. Jeffrey Brown talks to Smith about her friend, who passed away Friday.
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Rocker, Poet Jim Carroll Dies at Age 60
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," passed away Friday at the age of 60. Our weekly poem is Carroll's "Heroin," which originally appeared in the Paris Review, Issue 48, Fall 1969. The audio was recorded in 2001 and made available by Salon.com.
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Weekly Poem: 'First Thing'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Sep 07, 2009
Paul Hunter is a poet, musician and teacher. He produces letterpress books and broadsides under the imprint of Wood Works Press, his poems have appeared many journals, and he's the author of several chapbooks and four books of poetry.
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Weekly Poem: 'Erasers'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Mary Jo Salter is a poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist, whose latest collection of poems, "A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems," was published in March 2008.
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