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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.
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Elisa New is the Director and Host of Poetry in America,...
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Hosted by Elisa New, Poetry in America draws students of all...
- Elisa New
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.
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.
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...
In the second season of Poetry in America, guests join Elisa New for a lively and immersive discussion of the poems of Marilyn Chin, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Sondheim, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman.
Poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan consider the cultural significance of mushrooms. Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, Dr. Andrew Weil, writer Maria Popova, and journalist Frank Bruni join host Elisa New.
In Poetry in America, guests read and discuss unforgettable American poems with host Elisa New. The poems in Season 3 take us from tight-knit Cuban neighborhoods in Miami to Robert Frost’s green Vermont, from the antebellum South to the cold interstellar bodies of the cosmos.
