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Producer Curtis Fox explores the diverse world of contemporary American poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken too seriously. Schedule: Weekly

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Elizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry.

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DATE   TITLE POET
09/01/2010 LISTEN Poetry Became a Weapon  
08/13/2010 LISTEN Cruel, Cruel Summer Jane Kenyon
08/05/2010 LISTEN A Much-Mended Thing Amy Clampitt
07/27/2010 LISTEN "Warden of Where the River Went" W. S. Merwin
07/09/2010 LISTEN Lots in Translation Edward Hirsch
06/24/2010 LISTEN Poetry: The iPhone App Emily Dickinson
06/14/2010 LISTEN Poems of Pollution and Protest W. S. Merwin
05/27/2010 LISTEN Being’s Stony Smirk Allen Edwin Butt
05/18/2010 LISTEN How to Raise a Poetry Imp Elliott Vanskike
05/03/2010 LISTEN The Fun of Speaking English Dorothea Grossman
04/16/2010 LISTEN Complete Original: Eleanor Ross Taylor Eleanor Ross Taylor
04/05/2010 LISTEN Actors vs. Poets Edward Hirsch
03/18/2010 LISTEN Confessions of a Poetry Addict Catherine Pierce
03/09/2010 LISTEN Let Your Mirrored Convexities Multiply Agha Shahid Ali
02/18/2010 LISTEN The Fruit Was Red, the Juice Was Sweet Michael Field
02/15/2010 LISTEN Done with this Dust Lucille Clifton
02/08/2010 LISTEN No Images William Waring Cuney
01/28/2010 LISTEN Poetry Gone Cold Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
01/18/2010 LISTEN Poetry Written with an Eraser Ron Silliman
01/07/2010 LISTEN Worshipful Company of Snowbirds James Tate
12/23/2009 LISTEN From the Washington, DC, Poetry Tour Elizabeth Alexander
12/10/2009 LISTEN Good Bad Poetry  
12/01/2009 LISTEN The Power of Here and Now James Schuyler
11/16/2009 LISTEN The Nature of Political Power Robert Lowell
10/29/2009 LISTEN The Tomb of Love Philip Larkin