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Where We Began: Massive Open Online Courses. Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, this free, not-for-credit online Poetry in America series offered through HarvardX surveys nearly 400 years of American poetry. Through video lectures, archival images and texts, expeditions to historic sites, interpretive seminars with large and small groups ...
About Season 4. Eight new half-hour episodes of Poetry in America will premiere in April 2024 for National Poetry Month. Episodes focus on unforgettable American poems, which guests read and discuss with Elisa New, the series creator, host and director. Each poem in Season Four serves as a vehicle into a broader vision of America – taking us ...
Created by Elisa New, Poetry in America draws students of all ages into conversations about poetry. <p>Learn alongside host Elisa New as hip hop artist, Nas, music executive Steve Stoute, scholar Salamishah Tillett, and a chorus of rappers and fans break down the breakbeats–and explore the searing vision–of Nas’s iconic track “N.Y. State of Mind.”</p>
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.
Poetry in America. Season 1. Distinguished interpreters from all walks of life gather to explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems. Athletes, poets, musicians, and citizens of all ages join host Elisa New to experience and share the power of poetry. 23 2018 12 episodes.
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S2.E4 ∙ This Your Home Now - Mark Doty. Host Elisa New talks with poet Mark Doty, psychologist Steven Pinker, choreographer Bill T. Jones, writer and fashion commentator Simon Doonan, and designer Jonathan Adler about this poem in which a visit to the barber shop sparks a meditation on love, the AIDS crisis, masculinity, home, and getting older.
Poetry in America reunited with PBS Books on January 26th, 2022 to host another virtual event on trailblazing women poets. Elisa New and PBS Books host Heather-Marie Montilla were joined by PIA Season Three featured poet Evie Shockley to discuss her poem, “you can say that again, billie.”.
