Lectures tagged "Poetry"


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Bobby Sanabria: Latin Jazz
Bobby Sanabria
October 27, 2009
00:26:22
Multiple Grammy nominated recording artist Bobby Sanabria talks about his work as a percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, filmmaker, and educator on Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One.
Creativity and Mood
Creativity and Mood
Paul Muldoon
October 21, 2009
01:28:52
Poet and songwriter Paul Muldoon joins poet/playright Elizabeth Swados to explore the relationship between creativity and mood.
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Poetry in Hard Times
David Ferry
October 15, 2009
01:51:49
Renowned poets David Ferry, Suji Kwock Kim, Jill McDonough, Gail Mazur, Ifeanyi Menkiti, and Lloyd Schwartz join moderator Christopher Lydon to read the best of classic and contemporary Massachusetts authors.
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
Kevin Young: Blending Music in Poetry
Kevin Young
April 14, 2009
00:47:25
Kevin Young, Emory University's Professor of Poetry, discusses his unique compositions. He is widely known for finding inspiration in African American music, particularly the blues, and in the history of black America.
Jane Hirshfield Reads "For What Binds Us"
Jane Hirshfield
April 1, 2009
00:02:17
American poet Jane Hirshfield reads her poem, "For What Binds Us".
Yusef Komunyakaa Reads "Facing It"
Yusef Komunyakaa
April 1, 2009
00:01:51
Yusef Komunyakaa reads his poem "Facing It" about seeing the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. through his eyes as a war veteran and contemporary poet.
Edward Hirsch Reads "A Partial History of My Stupidity"
Edward Hirsch
April 1, 2009
Hirsch often finds inspiration in the work of other writers and artists, as is the case with this poem, "A Partial History of My Stupidity." In response to a poem by Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz, in which the author wrote that the history of his stupidity would fill many volumes, Hirsch said he thou