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Playlist: New Letters on the Air: Poetry Playlist

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For National Poetry Month, we've chosen some favorites—new and old—from the archives of New Letters on the Air. Click here to see all of New Letters' pieces.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Natasha Trethewey

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:35:21

2007 Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey reads from NATIVE GUARD and talks about the illegal courtship of her interracial parents in the segregated south. She also discusses her use of history and the poetic form, the ghazal.

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Kansas City Poet Phyllis Becker

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:29:00

Kansas City-based poet Phyllis Becker reads poems her collection, How I Came to Love Jazz, and discusses her artistic impulses and her collaboration with jazz singer Angela Hagenbach.

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Cave Canem, an African-American Writers' Center

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:29:00

This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha Tretheway, Kyle Dargan, and Major Jackson. We also hear from co-founders Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte and revisit the University of Georgia's Cave Canem symposium, BLACK POETS LEAN SOUTH.

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Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates (Series)

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NOTE: ALL EPISODES CAN STAND ALONE; NO OBLIGATION TO RUN THE ENTIRE SERIES. This five-episode series of one-hour programs features 17 of the men and women who have served as United States Poet Laureates over the past four decades, from the late Howard Nemerov (1963-64) to Donald Hall (beginning 2006). These conversations and readings of poetry vary from humorous to heavy, but are always thought-provoking, and are perfect for National Poetry Month in April, though they can be used anytime.

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Episode 5 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates series | 01:04:05

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Martin Espada

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:28:59

In this public poetry reading, Latino poet Martin Espada shares his engaging and rhythmic poetry from his collection ALABANZA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (1982-2002). He also reads from IMAGINE THE ANGELS OF BREAD.

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Feminist Poets

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:30:26

This program pays tribute to the feminist poets of the last century who opened doors for a vast number of talented women writers published today. Featured on the show are poets Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Maxine Kumin, Audre Lorde, and Carolyn Kizer.

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Poet Cornelius Eady recreates Mr. Zero in the Susan Smith drownings

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:29:01

Poet Cornelius Eady reads from his acclaimed 2001 collection, BRUTAL IMAGINATION, about the fictional black man whom Susan Smith, the mother who drowned her children in a South Carolina lake, accused of the murders.

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Comic poet David Kirby

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:28:56

David Kirby is a nationally renowned poet who is influenced by popular culture from Dante to Dagwood. A teacher at Florida State University, he reads from THE HOUSE ON BOULEVARD STREET—a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award.

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Victoria Chang

From New Letters on the Air | Part of the New Letters on the Air series | 00:28:56

Poet Victoria Chang talks about approaching poetry from the business world, and the influence of her Taiwanese immigrant parents on her work. She reads from SALVINIA MOLESTA and CIRCLE.

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