Poetry For All
Finding Our Way Into Great Poems
Displaying items 41-44 of 44 in total of Poetry For All with the tag "21st century".
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Episode 11: Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We Have
November 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 15 mins 46 secs
21st century, free verse, friendship, gratitude, hispanic heritage month, joy, repetition or refrain, thanksgiving
In this episode, we read and discuss a poem about giving by Alberto Ríos, the inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona.
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Episode 10: Mary Jo Bang, The Head of a Dancer
November 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 22 mins 22 secs
21st century, ekphrasis, free verse, guest on the show, intimacy, visual poetry, word and image
This week Mary Jo Bang joins us! We learn about the Bauhaus movement and a photographer named Lucia Moholy. And we look at both ekphrastic poetry (poetry about an image) and prose poetry (poetry with no line breaks).
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Episode 8: Toi Derricotte, "The Minks"
October 20th, 2020 | Season 1 | 20 mins 18 secs
21st century, black history month, free verse, guest on the show, narrative, surprise, wonder
This week, with special guest Carl Phillips, we take a close look at "The Minks" and consider the art of narrative poetry and the movements of a single-stanza poem.
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Episode 6: Jen Bervin, Nets
October 6th, 2020 | Season 1 | 19 mins 13 secs
21st century, erasure, eros and desire, grief and loss, intimacy, women's history month
In this episode we learn about erasure poetry and poetic tradition by looking at Jen Bervin's incredible book NETS, created from the sonnets of Shakespeare.