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SERIES: Sounds of Poetry
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26 minutesPoet 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.Poet Amiri BarakaOctober 3, 1999
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26 minutesAn 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.Poet Robert PinskyOctober 10, 1999
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26 minutesProfiling poet Marge Piercy Bill Moyers' Sounds of PoetryPoet Marge PiercyOctober 17, 1999
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26 minutesIn 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.Poet Coleman BarksOctober 24, 1999
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26 minutesTwo women. One a Chicana and one an Asian-American, brought up in completely different milieus with one thing in common – poverty.Sounds of PoetryPoets Lorna Dee Cervantes & Shirley Geok-lin LimOctober 31, 1999
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26 minutesBorn 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.Sounds of PoetryPoet Stanley KunitzNovember 7, 1999
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26 minutesThe poet and essayist talks with Bill about her work and the importance that poetry plays in her life.Poet Jane HirshfieldNovember 14, 1999
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26 minutesThey belong to different generations, come from different roots, live in different places. But both are poets writing about a world of living and dying.Sounds of PoetryPoets Lucille Clifton and Mark DotyNovember 20, 1999
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26 minutesThe poetry of Deborah Garrison speaks in a voice sometimes defiant and tinged with sarcasm, but humorous, too, and sweetened by tender longing.Poet Deborah GarrisonNovember 28, 1999