Poetry Everywhere RSS feed for PBS programming.http://video.pbs.orgen-ushttp://video.pbs.orgWed, 22 May 2013 21:09:52 -0400Wed, 22 May 2013 21:09:52 -0400http://video.pbs.org/video/1848371232/Galway Kinnell was born and raised in Rhode Island, and graduated from Princeton University in 1948. After traveling the world, he returned to the United States to join the civil rights movement and protested against the U.S. war in Vietnam. His poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" shows the power of love and spirituality flowing through the small moments and interactions of everyday life.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848371232/04/12/2011Pulitzer Prize winner Galway Kinnell reads his poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernLove and MarriageLove and MarriageSegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1848318057/Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952, Rita Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 1993. She has published nine volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, a collection of essays, and a novel. Throughout her life, Dove has nurtured a love of dance that has led to many poems about dancing, of which "American Smooth" is one.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848318057/04/12/2011Pulitzer Prize-winning Rita Dove reads her poem "American Smooth."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernIdentityIdentitySegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1848427694/Joseph Millar was raised in western Pennsylvania, got his M.A. degree in 1970 at Johns Hopkins University, and then moved to San Francisco. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and then returned east in 1997 where he founded the Brooklyn Arts Press. "American Wedding" captures Millar's sense of humbleness in the face of describing life's enormous emotions, destinies, and mysteries.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848427694/04/12/2011Poet Joseph Millar reads his poem "American Wedding."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernLove and MarriageLove and MarriageSegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1851908829/Kevin Young's poetry often examines his Deep South roots. Although Young was born and raised in the Midwest, his parents were from Louisiana, and ties to the family's Cajun heritage have remained strong throughout his life. "Dear Darkness," Young's sixth collection of poems, in which "Aunties" appears, was particularly inspired by the joy, sorrow, and food he came to associate with Louisiana.http://video.pbs.org/video/1851908829/04/12/2011Poet Kevin Young reads his poem "Aunties."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernFamilyFamilyInterstitialend=2014-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1848318083/Born in the heart of the car manufacturing world of southern Michigan, Bob Hicok worked in the automotive industry for 20 years. He left to take a teaching job at Western Michigan University, and he currently teaches at Virginia Tech. His first book of poems was published in 1991. "Calling him back from layoff" dramatizes a moment in the lives of two people dealing with the economic downturn.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848318083/04/12/2011Bob Hicok, a former auto industry worker, reads his poem "Calling him back from layoff."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernIdentityIdentitySegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1848371244/Born in Augusta, Maine, in 1952, Dorianne Laux became a published poet only after years of hard, hands-on work as a sanatorium cook, gas station manager, and maid. "Poems keep us conscious of the importance of our individual lives," says Laux. "Dust" examines a fleeting moment of connection that is swept aside and mostly lost in the busy activity of an average day.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848371244/04/12/2011Accomplished poet Dorianne Laux reads her poem "Dust."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernIdentityIdentitySegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1851879691/A native of Nicaragua, Daisy Zamora is one of the country's most distinguished poets. Her poems, essays, and translations have been translated into more than 14 languages and have appeared in more than 50 anthologies. In addition to being an award-winning poet, Zamora is also a painter and political activist.http://video.pbs.org/video/1851879691/04/12/2011Nicaraguan writer and political activist Daisy Zamora reads her poem "Mother's Day."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernFamilyFamilyInterstitialend=2015-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1851879674/Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She has lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides. In her writing, she has been inspired by her experiences as an Arab-American, as well as by richness and diversity of the people and places she has encountered, both in the American Southwest and abroad.http://video.pbs.org/video/1851879674/04/12/2011Poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads her poem "One Boy Told Me."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernFamilyFamilyInterstitialend=2014-03-31http://video.pbs.org/video/1848283921/Matthew Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1975 and his work has been published in "The Boston Review," "The American Poetry Review," and "The New Yorker." His poems capture the intense emotions of everyday life, and he has said that he wants his poems to resonate with people in the blue-collar world he was born into and the language in poems like "Slow Dance" is clear and immediate.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848283921/04/12/2011Poet Matthew Dickman reads his poem "Slow Dance."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernIdentityIdentitySegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1851908803/Billy Collins has distinguished himself through his clear, accessible poetry -- and by reinterpreting many traditional poetic forms. As United States Poet Laureate (2001-03), he created a poetry collection called "Poetry 180," a project whose aim was to increase poetry's popularity among teens by exposing them to a meaningful contemporary poem each day of the school year.http://video.pbs.org/video/1851908803/04/12/2011United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003) Billy Collins reads his poem "The Lanyard."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernFamilyFamilyInterstitialend=2014-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1848273727/Kwame Dawes, a prolific poet, playwright, novelist, actor, and musician, was born in Ghana in 1962, and grew up in Jamaica, where the "reggae aesthetic" had a profound and lasting impact on the direction of his work. "Tornado Child" is from a collection of poems based on Dawes' conversations with the elders of Sumter, South Carolina.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848273727/04/12/2011Kwame Dawes, a writer, actor, and musician, reads his poem "Tornado Child."tv-gIdentityIdentitySegmentend=2016-04-01http://video.pbs.org/video/1848481717/Born in California in 1945, Kay Ryan's unique brand of tightly compressed brilliance has earned her the status of one of the great living American poets and led to her appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate in 2008. Her poem "Turtle" approaches the turtle and its cumbersome body many times over, through many metaphors and observations, expressing impatience and dismay and a kind of pity for the animal.http://video.pbs.org/video/1848481717/04/12/20112008 Poet Laureate Kay Ryan reads her poem "Turtle."tv-gArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentLiterature & WritingLiterature & WritingModernModernIdentityIdentitySegmentend=2016-04-01