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Poetry in America
Educational
2018
Available on iTunes
Conversations about poetry.
Educational
2018
Starring
Elisa New
EPISODE 1
I Cannot Dance Opon My Toes
The challenges of art and audience across time, space and artistic medium; guests include Cynthia Nixon, Yo-Yo Ma, Jill Johnson and Marie Howe.
EPISODE 2
Fast Break
Using basketball to understand poetry and poetry to understand basketball; with poet Edward Hirsch, Shaquille O'Neal, Pau Gasol and Shane Battier.
EPISODE 3
Those Winter Sundays
Reflections on `Those Winter Days' by Robert Hayden; with Joe Biden, Elizabeth Alexander and Angela Duckworth.
EPISODE 4
Hymmnn and Hum Bom
Two emotional poems by Allen Ginsberg; the `Hymmnn' from Kaddish and the anti-war `Hum Bom!'; with Bono and Juan Felipe Herrera.
EPISODE 5
Skyscraper
The rise of the skyscraper and the emergence of the modernist poem; with Frank Gehry, Zhang Xin, poet Robert Polito and student poets from across the U.S.
EPISODE 6
Harlem
A discussion of `Harlem' by Langston Hughes; with Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Sonia Sanchez and students from the Harlem Children's Zone.
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