Sounds of Poetry
Bill Moyers delivers a series of nine half-hour programs in the series Sounds of Poetry featuring readings and conversations with the poets at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The programs highlight each poet in performance and in conversation. The nine episodes in the series are like a roadmap across America’s Featured are: Amiri Baraka, Coleman Barks, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Deborah Garrison, Jane Hirshfield, Stanley Kunitz, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky. (1999)
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October 3, 1999 | Updated January 9, 2014Poet and political agitator Amiri Baraka, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 79, talks about his work and his activism in this 1999 interview with Bill Moyers.
October 10, 1999An interview with Robert Pinsky, who chose a life in poetry over a life in music and went on to become a three-time poet laureate.
October 24, 1999In this episode of Sounds of Poetry, Coleman Barks tells Bill how he translates 13th century mystic Rumi's poetry through his own personality and experience.
October 31, 1999Two women. One a Chicana and one an Asian-American, brought up in completely different milieus with one thing in common – poverty.
November 7, 1999Born in 1905, Stanley Kunitz was an integral part of the poetry community until his death in 2006. His list of honors included the National Medal of Arts, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
November 14, 1999The poet and essayist talks with Bill about her work and the importance that poetry plays in her life.
November 20, 1999They belong to different generations, come from different roots, live in different places. But both are poets writing about a world of living and dying.
November 28, 1999The poetry of Deborah Garrison speaks in a voice sometimes defiant and tinged with sarcasm, but humorous, too, and sweetened by tender longing.
