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Celebrated guests join Elisa New for a lively discussion of poems by renowned poets.
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.
Now Streaming
Celebrated guests join Elisa New for a lively discussion of poems by renowned poets.
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.
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About Season 4
"Poetry in America" explores the rich and diverse field of American poetry. In each episode, poets, public figures and members of various American communities join host Elisa New to engage in close readings of American poems.
Episodes follow Phillis Wheatley to colonial Boston, Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Ríos to the Sonoran Desert, and Sylvia Plath into the fungal kingdom, as they explore America’s people, cultures, history, and language.
The series offers audiences an immersive and accessible experience in reading poems that touch on many aspects of American life, past and present.
Along the way, ecologists and Supreme Court Justices, actors and political commentators, doctors and musicians, poets and pastors, and teachers and their students join the conversation to reflect on essential works of the American literary imagination.
Poetry in America DVD
Poetry in America gathers distinguished interpreters from all walks of life to explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems.
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