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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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Poet Mark Doty Reflects on Community Bonds Forged by Handel's 'Messiah'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Poet Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award, reflects on one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."
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In Anthology, Rita Dove Connects American Poets' Intergenerational Conversations
Author: PBS NewsHour
Fri, Dec 16, 2011
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was recently given what may be the biggest honor -- and challenge -- of her career: sorting through poems from the last 100 years to create "The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry." Jeffrey Brown and Dove discuss the task that took more than four years.
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In 'Human Chain,' Nobel-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney Digs Into the Past
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Oct 24, 2011
In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney -- winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995 -- is a world-famous poet. Now 72, his new collection, "Human Chain," contains poems that are, as always for him, grounded in the physical world but also take a look back.
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Transtromer, Swedish Poet With 'Tinge of Modernism, Surrealism,' Wins Nobel
Author: PBS NewsHour
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
The 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, the first poet to win the award since 1996. Judges selected Transtromer because, they wrote, "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."
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Poet Philip Schultz Details Life-Long Struggle in New Memoir 'My Dyslexia'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Oct 05, 2011
Poet Philip Schultz details his life-long struggle to overcome dyslexia in his new memoir. Jeffrey Brown profiles the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's latest work, "My Dyslexia."
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Poet Donald Hall Reflects on Love, Death and New Hampshire
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Oct 05, 2011
"Love, death and New Hampshire," Donald Hall once said when asked what he writes about. It remains true in the former U.S. Poet Laureate's newly published book of poems, "The Back Chamber."
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Poet, Activist Ernesto Cardenal Explores Cosmos, Humanity in Verse
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Aug 30, 2011
Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin America's most renowned, but also controversial, poets and political activists, has shifted his recent work to reflect on humanity's connection to nature and relationship to the universe. Ray Suarez speaks with the poet about his life and writing.
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Working-Class Poet Levine Named Nation's Next Laureate
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Aug 10, 2011
Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was named Wednesday as the next poet laureate of the United States. Jeffrey Brown profiled Levine last year.
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Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Jul 19, 2011
In a year of floods, fires and storms making headlines around the world, poet and editor Jeffrey Yang chronicles how writers have grappled with the power of nature over the centuries in his new book. Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature.
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'Life on Mars' Author Explores Humans' Relationship With Universe Through Poetry
Author: PBS NewsHour
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
"Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words. The Princeton creative writing professor and poet reflects on the relationship between our lives and the universe at her Brooklyn home.
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Former Poet Laureate Pinsky: Poetry 'Too Fundamental, Large' to Need Advocate
Author: PBS NewsHour
Fri, May 20, 2011
Much of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's writing has focused on American life. He takes a look back at his career with Jeffrey Brown.
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'Life on Mars' Author Explores Humans' Relationship With Universe Through Poetry
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, May 16, 2011
"Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words. The Princeton creative writing professor and poet reflects on the relationship between our lives and the universe at her Brooklyn home.
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Poet CD Wright Weaves History, Reporting, Storytelling in Verse
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Apr 26, 2011
Brown University professor CD Wright weaves oral histories, news reports and interviews into her poetry. Her latest volume, "One With Others," looks back at the civil rights era in her native Arkansas.
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Iowa Writers' Workshop, Famous for Training Top Writers, Turns 75
Author: PBS NewsHour
Thu, Apr 07, 2011
Jeffrey Brown reports on the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's oldest and most prestigious postgraduate writing program for elite writers and poets. The workshop celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
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Weekly Poem: 'Green Door'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Mar 07, 2011
Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction and is the editor of other works. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.
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Benghazi-Born Poet Mattawa Reflects on Growing up Under Gadhafi
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Jeffrey Brown talks to Libyan-born poet Khaled Mattawa about life under Moammar Gadhafi and the recent crisis in his homeland.
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Virginia Poet Charles Wright Explores 'Inexhaustible Power of Words'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Poet Charles Wright has authored more than 20 books of verse and won numerous awards. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author reads some of his work and shares his sources of inspiration.
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Conversation: Libyan Poet Khaled Mattawa
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, which is now much in the news, and came to the United States as a teenager in 1979. Jeffrey Brown spoke to Mattawa about the uprising in Libya, and about the history of poetry and literature there.
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Conversation: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Prose'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
Although publishing relatively little, roughly 100 poems, Elizabeth Bishop wrote volumes, and over the last decade nearly all of her unpublished work has been made public. Last week, two new books were added to the Bishop's canon, titled simply "Poetry" and "Prose."
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Weekly Poem: 'Ex Libris'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 31, 2011
Megan Harlan's first book of poems, "Mapmaking," won the 2009 John Ciardi Prize. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, AGNI Online and elsewhere.
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In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble
Author: PBS NewsHour
Wed, Jan 26, 2011
On his recent reporting trip to Haiti, Jeffrey Brown explored the story of Haitian poets and artists surviving -- and creating -- amid the rubble of last year's earthquake.
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Weekly Poem: 'Together'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 24, 2011
Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tenn., in 1935 and was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa. He has written several books of poems, including most recently, "Outtakes" (2010); "Sestets: Poems" (2010); and the forthcoming "Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems" (April 2011).
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Weekly Poem: From 'Fugue'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 17, 2011
Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."
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Weekly Poem: 'The Winter's Wife'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 10, 2011
Jennifer Chang is the author of "The History of Anonymity" (Georgia, 2008). A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian American poetry.
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In Haiti, Writer Kwame Dawes Tells of Quake Aftermath Through Poetry
Author: PBS NewsHour
Tue, Jan 04, 2011
Writer Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people's experiences after the earthquake. Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Dawes continues a series of reports in partnership with USA Today and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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Weekly Poem: 'Boy in Blue'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Jan 03, 2011
Recently, Kwame Dawes teamed up with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to examine the earthquake in Haiti through poetry. Look for a report on the NewsHour about that project in the coming days.
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Profile of Boise, Idaho-based Poet Karena Youtz
Author: PBS NewsHour
Fri, Dec 31, 2010
Poet Karena Youtz shares her most recent collection of verses,"The Shape is Space," in the latest in a NewsHour series profiling poets around the world.
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Weekly Poem: 'Burning the Christmas Greens'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Dec 27, 2010
Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.
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Weekly Poem: 'The New Intelligence'
Author: PBS NewsHour
Mon, Dec 20, 2010
Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
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Conversation: Patti Smith
Author: PBS NewsHour
Fri, Dec 17, 2010
Jeffrey Brown talks to rock legend Patti Smith, whose memoir, "Just Kids," won the National Book Award for nonfiction.
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