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Poetry In America Season 3 Preview

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. Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere: 11/12/21

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Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
S4 E7 Length 25:21 Premiere Date 05/13/24

Emperor of Ice Cream, Motive for Metaphor
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Hill Country
S4 E5 Length 25:21 Premiere Date 04/29/24

July in Washington
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Mushrooms, Weakness and Doubt
S4 E3 Length 25:21 Premiere Date 04/15/24

Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur
S4 E2 Length 25:21 Premiere Date 04/08/24

Phillis Wheatley: To the University
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Latinx poet Martin Espada reflects on social mobility.

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Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" provide a portal into 1950s New York.

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