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American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems selected and introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Nationally syndicated to 4 million readers in more than 60 publications every week, the column is published by Poetry Foundation Media Services with administrative support provided by the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/
Garrison Keillor recounts the literary highlights of this day in history and reads a poem or two in this beloved radio program. Heard by more than 2 million listeners on more than 300 public radio stations and XM Satellite Radio every day, production and distribution of the program is sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Gerald Stern: Still Burning
Gerald Stern is as much the poet warrior now as when he stunned the poetry world thirty years ago with his book Lucky Life. In that book he first staked out a place for himself and readers that he has continued to make, a place that in his words is "overlooked or ignored or disdained, a place no one else wanted." This short documentary film, illustrated with materials from Stern's own archive, features some of Stern's best known poems. It also includes commentary by poets Ross Gay, Edward Hirsch, Anne Marie Macari, Heather McHugh, and Thomas Lux, each with a unique perspective on Stern as artist and friend. Still Burning is a short film by REMproductions (the Media group of the Lempert Family Foundation) produced in association with the Poetry Foundation. WATCH »
The Poetry Series, featured on the PBS NewsHour and funded by the Poetry Foundation, engages a broader audience with poetry through a series of thoughtful, in-depth reports on contemporary poets and poetry.
The series includes short-form profiles of living American poets and long-form segments on current debates in poetry. Segments in the series have featured Washington, D.C.-area high school students as they prepare for and participate in the national poetry recitation contest, reports on the poetry of the Middle East and the business of publishing poetry, and profiles of poets, including Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, John Ashbery, Li-Young Lee, Natasha Trethewey, and Kevin Young.
Recently on the Newshour: Mary Jo Bang reads two poems, "The Role of Elegy" and "How Beautiful." Her fifth book Elegy won the National Book Critics Circle Award. MORE »
