Media
The Poetry Media Service offers free content about poetry to newspapers and online publications. Its book reviews, profiles, interviews, and poetry columnists will engage a general readership in poetry. New releases, approximately 750 words each, will be posted here weekly. SIGN UP HERE.
But what is it like? How, in fact, do you read it? “I am underlining like Queen Victoria,” Bishop remarks at one stage. How do you filter, assimilate, crunch it down to the space of a review? Its 800 pages of letters—every one of them bearing my ambiguous slashes of delight, interest, controversy, revelation—still left me with eight sheets full of page numbers of my own. It's like starting with a city, and ending up with a phone book—hardly useful as a redaction. Really, I might as well have held a pencil to the margin and kept it there, for bulk reread.
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Media Partners and Programs
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 »
An exploration of the role of poetry in society and profiles of contemporary poets featured on the highly acclaimed nightly PBS news program. A partnership between the Poetry Foundation and the NewsHour, the poetry series includes short-form profiles on living American poets and long-form segments on current debates and issues in poetry. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
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 »
