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Tag Archives: Poetry
Public Poet, Public Critic
Morris Dickstein discusses his new book, Double Agent: The Critic and Society (Oxford University Press). Linda Gregerson reads and talks about her poem, Line Drive Caught by the Grace of God.
Royal Patronage
A discussion of royal patronage and the careers of two prominent Jacobean courtiers, the poet John Donne and Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton.
Old Tech and New; Storytellers and Poets
Henry Binford discusses the culrural significance of ice cream in modern America. George Houston discusses telling time in ancient Roman culture.; Allan Gurganus and Robert Gingher discuss contemporary short fiction in America. Robert Gingher’s collection of stories of North Carolina writers, The Rough Road Home, will be published in November. Li-Young Lee and Jim Wayne Miller discuss American poetry in the 1990s. Both of these individuals have published several collections of poetry.
Storytellers and Poets
Allan Gurganus and Robert Gingher discuss contemporary short fiction in America. Robert Gingher’s collection of stories of North Carolina writers, The Rough Road Home, will be published in November. Li-Young Lee and Jim Wayne Miller discuss American poetry in the 1990s. Both of these individuals have published several collections of poetry.
Prizewinning Poetry
Linda Gregerson reads her poem, Safe, which appeared in The Best American Poems 1991 (Collier Books Macmillan Publishing Company). Czeslaw Milosz reads his latest collection of poems, Provinces (Ecco Press, 1991).
Favorite Poets
William Harmon discusses his edition of The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry (Columbia University Press), a collection of the 100 most-frequently anthologized poems in English.
The Value of Poetry
James Applewhite and Richard Wilbur read from their work and discuss poetry and values. Applewhite’s recent books include River Writing and Lessons in Soaring. Wilbur’s New and Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989.
Crosscurrents
In two conversations about creative crosscurrents between Europe and the United States, Rita Dove discusses D_rer’s Beauty,? her sequence of poems about the German artist Albrect D_rer, and Robert ter Horst discusses the American historian Henry Adams and the Bloomsbury Groups in England.
Cultural Fabrics
Marjorie Agosin discusses contemporary Latin American poetry and reads from her own work. Houston Baker and Henry Louis Gates discuss African-American literature and the cultural canon of the United States.
Poetic Politics and Property
Howard Erskine-Hill discusses his study of poetry and affairs of state. Joseph Loewenstein discusses his investigations into Renaissance creativity and the book trade.
Highest Thoughts
Rita Dove and Helen Vendler discuss Rita Dove’s earlier work, her Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah (1986), and her current project, a sequence of poems entitled D_rer’s Beauty.?
Social Satire: Poets and Fools
Fred Ahl has written books about the Roman epic poet Lucan and about wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry. Phillip Mitsis and Christopher Shields are students of episteomology of the metaphysics of American popular culture.
Story and Song
Eudora Welty sits for an interview at the National Humanities Center
Helen Vendler‘s recent books include Voices and Visions: American Poets (Random House) and The Music of What Happens: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (Harvard University Press).
Eudora Welty‘s recent books include One Writer’s Beginnings (Warner Books, 1985).
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Tagged Literary Criticism, Literature, Novelist, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize
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Our Old English Home
George Kane and Joseph Wittig are collaborating on a forthcoming glossary of the Middle English poem, Piers Plowman. Bruce Mitchell is the author of Old English Syntax (Oxford University Press, 1985).
The Poet and the Poem
Grace Cavalieri is the author of 18 plays and four books of poetry. Her latest collection of poems is Bliss, published in 1986 by Hillmunn Roberts Publishing Company.