Elisa New, the director and host of “Poetry in America,” discussed the new season of the series that explores great works of American poetry, including poems from Walt Whitman, Richard …
and streaming sites. The episodes crackle with vibrant images, original music, wide-ranging topics and high-profile guests that this season include Julia Alvarez, Gloria Estefan, LisaGay Hamilton, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Tracy K. Smith, DJ Spooky, David Strathairn and Cassandra Wilson, among others. Previous guests include Bono, Nas, Shaquille O’Neal, Sen. John McCain, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and presidents Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
Edna St. Vincent Millay published in Vanity Fair, Edgar Allan Poe published in women’s magazines. Whitman, lots of poets published in illustrated magazines, and I think we lose a lot of that when we just think of poems as these disembodied, decontextualized ahistorical statements from somewhere. Ammons, he was a science nerd. He studied general science in college, and as he walked around the world, looking at the features of nature, he was looking both as someone who loved Romantic poetry and that tradition of looking at the natural world and as somebody who looked at a rock and thought, how was it formed, who looked at a stream and thought about gravity.
I feel so honored to have been able to work with Ambassador Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, on the Robert Frost episode along with Julia Alvarez and David Gergen, because the Robert Frost episode is really about how we live in a civil society. And it goes to, you know, some of the most difficult questions of our time.
Art is sometimes upsetting. That doesn’t mean that all art is appropriate for all audiences of every age. But finding ways as a society to face our failures and human experiences that are terrible to consider, I think that’s what art helps us to do.
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