Search results
Elisa New is the Director and Host of Poetry in America, director of the Center for Public Humanities at Arizona State University, director of Verse Video Education, and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.
Poetry in America is a TV series and educational initiative that brings poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world. Created by Elisa New, Poetry in America draws students of all ages into conversations about poetry.
Hosted by Elisa New, Poetry in America draws students of all ages into conversations about poetry. Every half-hour episode offers the viewer a fully immersive experience in hearing, reading, and interpreting a single American poem.
In each episode, poets, public figures and members of various American communities join host Elisa New to engage in close readings of American poems.
Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Ríos to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more.
Poetry in America: From the Civil War through Modernism This course spans a critical era in American literature, beginning with antebellum and Civil War poetry, entering the twentieth century, and traversing the transformative modernist era.
Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos, follow animals across the Great Plains and Sonoran Desert. Both poets join host Elisa New, Jeff Corwin, and more to discuss survival in the harsh climates of the American West.
