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: 'Myth'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
Natasha Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2007 for her book, "Native Guard," written about her mother and black Civil War soldiers on the Mississippi coast.
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Weekly Poem: 'Graffiti'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Jun 22, 2009
Javairia Henry recently graduated from Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. Her poem, "Graffiti," is taken from 'The Way We See It: Complete Coverage of the Nation's Capital From the Inside Out,' presented by the Capitol Letters Writing Center.
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Weekly Poem: From 'Fundamentals of Esperanto'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Jun 15, 2009
"Fundamentals of Esperanto" is from "Facts for Visitors" by Srikanth Reddy, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. "Fundamentals of Esperanto" is also included in the Poetry Foundation's Chicago Poetry Tour.
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Weekly Poem: 'Luminous Great Mass'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Jun 08, 2009
"Luminous Great Mass" is from Peter O'Leary's collection, "Watchfulness" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001). The poems is also included in the Poetry Foundation's Chicago Poetry Tour, a multimedia tour of poetry written in and about Chicago.
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Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Thu, Jun 04, 2009
Afghan-born 13th century Sufi mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi is the national poet of Afghanistan, as well as a much-loved poet in America. Jeffrey Brown reports on what's behind the popularity of Rumi's poems.
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Weekly Poem: 'Composition'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
John Ashbery is the author of more than 30 volumes of poetry, criticism and essays. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry, and his body of work has led many to consider him one of the nation's most important writers of the last half century.
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Weekly Poem: 'White Song'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Tue, May 26, 2009
J. Michael Martinez's collection "Heredities" was selected for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award and will be published by Louisiana State University Press. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Weekly Poem: 'J. Begins by Saying The World's Not as It Should Be'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, May 18, 2009
Jeffrey Schultz's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Great River Review, Northwest Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs and elsewhere. He teaches at Pepperdine University.
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Weekly Poem: 'Reasons to Consider Setting Ourselves on Fire'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, May 11, 2009
In March, Jynne Dilling Martin was one of four winners of the 92nd Street Y "Discovery" Poetry Contest, which since 1951 has recognized the achievements of poets who have not yet published a first book. This year's winners were chosen from among 900 poets.
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Conversation: Russell L. Goings
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Fri, May 08, 2009
To sit down and talk with Russell Goings, you would never guess he came to poetry later in life. Stories rich with allusions drawn from the gods of antiquity to the pioneers of the African-American journey pour out of Goings in a rhythm that reveals his connection to the blues and gospel, Homer and Shakespeare.
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Weekly Poem: An Excerpt from 'The Children of Children Keep Coming'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, May 04, 2009
Russell Goings studied writing at Fairfield University and the 92nd Street Y. Before he took up writing 15 years ago, he was a professional football player, the first African-American brokerage manager for a New York Stock Exchange Member firm and founder and chairman for Essence magazine.
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Poet Hicok Reflects on Economic Hardships in Mich.
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
Bob Hicok was born and raised in Michigan, worked in factories and once owned an automotive die design business there before becoming a professor at Virginia Tech. His poetry reflects on the economic hardships suffered in his home state.
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Conversation: Poet Carl Phillips
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Tue, Apr 28, 2009
To read Carl Phillips is to enter a world of finely-wrought poems that explore mind and body, history and intimacy. Phillips is a professor of English and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and a much praised and honored poet. His 10th volume of verse has just been released. It's called "Speak Low."
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Weekly Poem: 'To Drown in Honey'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Carl Phillips is the author of 10 books of poems, including most recently, "Speak Low." He is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program.
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Conversation: Adina Hoffman, Author of Biography of Taha Muhammad Ali
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
Several years ago Jeffrey Brown had the opportunity to travel through Israel and the West Bank to talk to Palestinian and Israeli poets. Among the remarkable writers I met there and the one who made the greatest impression on viewers was Taha Muhammad Ali.
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Conversation: Mark Nowak and April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
Mark Nowak's recently published poetry collection "Coal Mountain Elementary" explores the perils and at times personal tragedies of the coal mining industry. "Coal Mountain Elementary" is also being staged as a play by Davis & Elkins College.
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Well-traveled Poet Finds Consistency in Words
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
Poet, playwright and editor Nathalie Handal has lived in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Arab world. She talks with Jeffery Brown about how she has ensconced her memory and transient experiences in poetry.
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Poem of the Week: 'Where'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. He has published several collections of poetry and is also writes short stories. A new biography of Muhammad Ali ('My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness') written by Adina Hoffman, has just come out.
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Weekly Poem: 'Since Nine--'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Apr 13, 2009
Constantine Cavafy never published a complete book of his poems during his lifetime. For more than 10 years, the writer, critic and translator, Daniel Mendelsohn, has immersed himself in Cavafy's work. The result: "C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems" and "C.P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems."
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Conversation: Daniel Mendelsohn Discusses Two New Collections of Poet C.P. Cavafy
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
Constantine Cavafy, the greatest Greek poet since antiquity, never published a complete book of his poems during his lifetime. Cavafy believed that poems remained works in progress and could be altered over time.
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Weekly Poem: 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Apr 06, 2009
Bob Hicok is the author of five books of poems and has won Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He once worked in the automotive die industry and is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.
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Weekly Poem: 'Evening Walk'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938 and moved to the United States in 1954. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2007-2008. Simic, whose work is known for its surrealism, dark humor and irony, is the author of 20 books of poetry.
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Kay Ryan Reflects on Role as Nation's Poet Laureate
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Wed, Mar 25, 2009
Known for compact writing and for leading a quiet life, Kay Ryan has taken on a very public role as the nation's poet laureate. For more than 30 years, she has taught remedial English in Marin County, Calif. Her poems are often praised for their wit and wisdom.
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Weekly Poem: 'Handymen'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
Cornelius Eady is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame and is the co-founder and vice president of Cave Canem a national organization for African American poetry.
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Weekly Poem: 'Brokenmusic'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
Nathalie Handal is the author of two books of poetry, "The NeverField" and "The Lives of Rain," and is also the editor of "The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology" and co-editor of "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond."
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Conversation and Reading With Poet Laureate Kay Ryan
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Known for short, compact writing and for living a very quiet life, Kay Ryan has taken on a big and very public role as the nation's Poet Laureate. For more than thirty years, Ryan has lived and taught remedial English in Marin County, Calif. Her poems are often praised for their wit, wisdom and brevity.
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Weekly Poem: 'Salvage'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
Poet Laureate Kay Ryan reads "Salvage," a poem from her book, "The Niagara River."
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From Lebanon's Marcel Khalife, Songs of Strife and Love
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Fri, Feb 27, 2009
In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs about love and strife, politics and injustice.
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Weekly Poem: 'Advertisement for the Mountain'
Author: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mon, Feb 23, 2009
Christina Davis is the author of "Forth A Raven" (Alice James Books, 2006). She is Curator at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, and the poetry editor of Nightboat Books. In February, Poet Laureate Kay Ryan chose Davis and Mary Szybist for the 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships.
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