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Poetry in America

Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden

Season 1 Episode 7

How are ordinary people to regard, and respond to, suffering they have not caused? Ponder W.H. Auden’s World War II era reflections on suffering in “Musée des Beaux Arts" with Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, with journalist and ethicist David Brooks, and with poet, professor, and painter Peter Sacks.

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Play hooky with Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems.” Poets and NYC-lovers join host Elisa New.
Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
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Poet Martín Espada worked manufacturing legal pads, and the job is burned into his memory.
Emperor of Ice Cream, Motive for Metaphor
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Murray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens.
Hill Country
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Drive through West Texas with Tracy K. Smith, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and host Elisa New.
July in Washington
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David Axelrod, Bill Kristol and Andrea Mitchell read Robert Lowell with Elisa New.
Mushrooms, Weakness and Doubt
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Consider the poetics, and politics, of fungi with poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan.
Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur
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Read the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New.
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Poems by Wheatley with Amanda Gorman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Richard Blanco, and more.
Sonnet IV; I shall forget you presently, my dear, by Millay
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Leslie Jamison, Olivia Gatwood, & more read a sonnet by Millay with host Elisa New.
Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos
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Linda Hogan & Alberto Ríos explore their poems with host Elisa New, Jeff Corwin & more.
Poems about Motherhood by Sharon Olds and Bernadette Mayer
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Elisa New, Emily Oster, Sharon Olds, & Bernadette Mayer explore poems on motherhood.
Mending Wall, by Robert Frost
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Caroline Kennedy, Tracy K. Smith & more read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” with Elisa New.
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