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A collaboration with American Public Media, which creates poetry programming for a variety of public radio shows, including Marketplace, Performance Today, Speaking of Faith, The Story, and The Splendid Table.
Schedule: Weekly

Poetry in Work

There's a lot of poetry in work—people who do it, under do it, and can't afford not to do it. David Tucker reads his poem "Downsizing," Pedro Pietri reads his poem "Telephone Booth Number 905/2," and Katha Pollitt reads Sarah Cleghorn's "The Golf Links."

MORE EPISODES FROM Poetry Radio Project

DATE TITLE POETS
06/02/2009 Listen A Working Man's Poet Philip Levine
05/26/2009 Listen “We are the ones we've been waiting for.” Derek Walcott
05/08/2009 Listen Finding the Poetry in Finance Katy Lederer
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