Poetry in America
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S1 E1 - I Cannot Dance Opon My Toes
March 31, 201826min"I cannot dance opon my toes" by Emily Dickinson, featuring Cynthia Nixon, Marie Howe, Yo Yo Ma, Jill Johnson.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E2 - Fast Break
March 31, 201826min"Fast Break" by Edward Hirsch, featuring Shaquille O'Neal, Edward Hirsch, Shane Battier, Pau Gasol, and a chorus of pick-up basketball players.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E3 - Those Winter Sundays
March 31, 201826min"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, featuring Vice President Joe Biden, Elizabeth Alexander, Angela Duckworth, and a chorus of working fathers and sons.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E4 - Hymmnn and Hum Bom
March 31, 201826min"Hymmnn" and "Hum Bom" by Allen Ginsberg, featuring Bono, Juan Felipe Herrera, and a chorus of religious chant practitioners.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E5 - Skyscraper
March 31, 201826min"Skyscraper" by Carl Sandburg, featuring Frank Gehry, Robert Polito, Zhang Xin, and a chorus of National Student Poets.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E6 - Harlem
March 31, 201826min"Harlem" by Langston Hughes, featuring Herbie Hancock, Bill Clinton, Sonia Sanchez, and a chorus of kids at the Harlem Children's Zone.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E7 - Musee des Beaux Arts
March 31, 201826min"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden, featuring Samantha Power, Peter Sacks, David Brooks.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E8 - Shirt
March 31, 201826min"Shirt" by Robert Pinsky, featuring Stuart Weitzman, Robert Pinsky, Betty Halbreich, Johnson Hartig, and students at Parsons School of Design.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E9 - To Prisoners
March 31, 201826min"To Prisoners" by Gwendolyn Brooks, featuring Anna Deveare Smith, John McCain, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Li-Young Lee, and Innocence Project Exonerees.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E10 - The Gray Heron
March 31, 201826min"The Gray Heron" by Galway Kinnell, featuring E.O. Wilson, Robert Hass, Laura McPhee, and young naturalists at the Massachusetts Audubon Society.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E11 - New York State of Mind
March 31, 201826min"N.Y. State of Mind" by Nas, featuring Nas, Steve Stoute, Ben Horowitz, Salamishah Tillet, and a chorus of hip hop heads.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchaseS1 E12 - The New Colossus
March 31, 201826min"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, featuring Regina Spector, Duy Doan, Randi Weingarten, David Rubenstein, and Cristina Jimenez.Subscribe to PBS Living or PBS Documentaries or purchase
