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Poetry in America
This Your Home Now, by Mark Doty
Season 2
Episode 4
Series creator Elisa New talks with poet Mark Doty, psychologist Steven Pinker, choreographer Bill T. Jones, design maven Simon Doonan and designer Jonathan Adler about “This Your Home Now,” where a visit to the barber shop sparks a meditation on love, the AIDS crisis, and the satisfactions of getting older.
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Drive through West Texas with Tracy K. Smith, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and host Elisa New.
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David Axelrod, Bill Kristol and Andrea Mitchell read Robert Lowell with Elisa New.
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Consider the poetics, and politics, of fungi with poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan.
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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.
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Leslie Jamison, Olivia Gatwood, & more read a sonnet by Millay with host Elisa New.
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Linda Hogan & Alberto Ríos explore their poems with host Elisa New, Jeff Corwin & more.
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Elisa New, Emily Oster, Sharon Olds, & Bernadette Mayer explore poems on motherhood.
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Caroline Kennedy, Tracy K. Smith & more read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” with Elisa New.