Author: Jim Lehrer
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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 Poems: a Double From the 'Mets Poet'
Author: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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: Online 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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Weekly Poem: 'Physical Portrait / Retrato fisico'
Author: Online NewsHour
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
Cecilia Vicuna's visual work has been exihibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, which was published this month.
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Junk Man: Poet and Professor Albert Goldbarth
Author: Online NewsHour
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
Poet and toy collector Albert Goldbarth is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, Goldbarth discusses his writing, and his latest book of poetry,"To Be Read in 500 Years."
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Weekly Poem: 'Beauty Parlor'
Author: Online NewsHour
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: "Woman in the Painting," "The Other Life" and "House Without a Dreamer," which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.
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Weekly Poem: 'Too Here'
Author: Online NewsHour
Mon, Aug 10, 2009
Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987.
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Weekly Poem: 'Living Room'
Author: Online NewsHour
Mon, Aug 03, 2009
Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: "Woman in the Painting," "The Other Life" and "House Without a Dreamer." She is also the editor of "When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women."
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Weekly Poem: 'How Simile Works'
Author: Online NewsHour
Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987.
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Weekly Poem: 'Barking'
Author: Online NewsHour
Tue, Jul 21, 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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Weekly Poem: 'Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand'
Author: Online NewsHour
Mon, Jul 13, 2009
C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand" is taken from "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won the Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Writer, Poet Jim Harrison Is a Determined 'Outsider'
Author: Online NewsHour
Thu, Jul 09, 2009
Most of Jim Harrison's 32 books have been set in the sparsely populated areas he knows well: Northern Michigan, the Sandhills of Nebraska, the Arizona-Mexico border and in the beautiful "Paradise Valley" near Livingston, Mt., where he now lives much of the year. Jeffrey Brown reports.
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Weekly Poem: 'Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof'
Author: Online NewsHour
Wed, Jul 08, 2009
C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof" is taken from her most recent book, "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize, bestowed by the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry.
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Weekly Poem: 'Myth'
Author: Online NewsHour
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: Online NewsHour
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: Online NewsHour
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: Online NewsHour
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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