Stephen Motika on New York's Poet's House
Poets House is a literary center and poetry archive - a collection and meeting place in New York that invites poets and the public to join the living tradition of poetry. Free and open to the public, Poets House’s 50,000-volume poetry library is among the most comprehensive, open-stacks collections of poetry in the United States. Hosting acclaimed poetry events and workshops, Poets House not only documents the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, it stimulates public dialogue on issues of poetry in culture.
I visited Poet's House to speak with Program Director Stephen Motika about why a literary tourist might want stop by here.
Poetry for Every Season: Holiday Train Show Poetry Reading with Billy Collins
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins held a special reading of his work and train-themed poems at The New York Botanical Garden. The Garden is currency hosting the annual Holiday Train Show, which features a poetry walk of poems written by Collins that tie into the themes of the show— The beauty and evocative nature of the winter season, the sense of family and togetherness that accompanies the holidays and the majesty of of the railroad.
Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library Literary Lion. His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as a form of travel writing and considers humor a door into the serious.
Billy Collins has published eight collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, and Ballistics, and most recently, Horoscopes for the Dead. Included among the honors Billy Collins has received are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. In January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. Billy Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, as well as a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.
The event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
An American Poem
Listening to this track i got so inspired to do a Vid for it!
Lots of history..go look it up
Those Guys - An American Poem
Soulful, lyrically, to the point house, with bumpin angry percussive beats and a serious spoken word performance by Ras Baraka Jazzy sax solo and Nina Simone samples.
Writers: T. Douglas, J. Steinhour and R. Baraka
Sax: Paul Shapiro
Bass: Irvin Madden
Guitar: Wayne Cooper
Drums: Rodney Dunton
Percussion: Victor Williams
Publishers: Basement Boys Music (ASCAP)
Are there any American poets in here?
I wanna hear an American poem
A South Carolina slave shout or
Alabama backwoods church shack call and response
I wanna hear an American poem
An American poem
About share croppers on the side of the road
Of families in cardboard boxes.
Not about kings or majestic lands or how beautiful ugly can be
I wanna hear some American poetry
[I wanna hear some American shit
Some American poetry
Something about ghettos of Italians, of Jews, of Germans, of niggas]
About abandoned projects and lead poison and poverty and children in jail.
I wanna hear a poem about a picket line and the Joe Hill legend, struggle for an eight our day
Hey you, hey you
Where are all the American poems about Harlem number runners and barber shop conversations about colored faces on color tvs
I wanna hear an American poem, something American, as American as jazz,
Or a South Bronx burner brandished on abandoned buildings
A scratch tune
A breakbeat
A backspin
A beatbox
A rap song
In Congo Square
Niggas beatin' on buckets on Broad Street,
As American as the Zulu Nation and the Latin Kings
I wanna hear an American poem
About a dead girl on Chadwick Avenue with a bullet in her neck
From a cop doin his job ordered by Fascism and crack cocaine
You know, something made in the USA
Something American
An Afro Cuban New Yo Rican Latin tinged beatin' bomba and plena
Sprawling out of the wide open tenement windows in the middle of the winter
On the verge of East Harlem on North Newark
Poems of brown colleagues (?)
Of Albizu being tortured for breathing Taino blood
Screaming African tongues
Dialoguing in Spanish for being him (?)
Puerto Rican self and worst of all loving it
My God where is all the American poetry
[Not poems about your attic
Not poems about how your clothes fit
Or f***ing poems
And stale slobber
Nor the night before
Or the morning after
I don't wanna hear about your shoes
Or your statues
And your fantasies
There's no more American poetry]
Just death marches and stoic laughter
Niggers being funny
No American poets
No I won't boost your morale
Or play your songs
Or make you feel comfortable
Or build your ego
Or play my part
I just wanna hear an American poem
Something native like the Trail of Tears
Wounded Knee or smallpox and blankets
You know American
Something that represents us
[I wanna hear an American poem
With American images like Welcome Back Kotter
Or White Shadow or Different Strokes
About white gods who guide helpless niggas to the light
American you know
Something that represents us]
A colorful rainbow, a big bright fist
An uncorrected sentence
Improper English
As American as Cointelpro
Peakskill New York
Robeson singing out of the back of a truck
Nina Simone playing at the Village Gate
With Baldwin playing next to her on the piano stool
And Amina [and Amiri] Baraka in the audience
Air filled with cognac and Mississippi Goddamn
Capture that moment
Write something about that
An American masterpiece
You know an American poem
Something strictly American
Like Red summer
Strange fruit
Palmer Raids
Hey you, yeah, you, yeah, you, you
Something American
U.S.A. America
America U.S.A.
As American as the KKK
[Hayes Tilden 1877
Dred Scott 1857
Brown vs. Board of Education
Sweat vs. Painter
Smith vs. Allwright
Smith vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Us vs. them
Them vs. us
Us vs. them
Them vs. us]
A poem about Emmett Till will do
Tallahachee River
Church bombings and child murderers
About Alabama red dirt and boycotts in Montgomery
About families migrating north with dignity and shotguns
I wanna hear a poem
I wanna hear an American poem
About a beautiful black boy
Cant you see him
A beautiful black boy colored into the night
His eyes the stars, his hands are willed (?)
About a beautiful black boy in the middle of a project playing checkers with glass and stone who beats buckets as drums and plays the horn in his sleep
I wanna hear a poem about a beautiful brown girl
A incredibly, beautiful brown girl
With an aged mahogany smile and flower petals for lips
And a beautiful brown girl with a poem in her eyes
With a poem in her eyes
A poem in her eyes and a gun in her hand sitting in a puddle of tears in Clintons womens facility in the Garden State in the land of the free
You know, something American
Something that represents me.
Poetry By Patricia Goedicke
Poetry reading in the Missoula Art Museum, held shortly after the new wing and re-model was completed.
Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury College in 1953, where she studied with Robert Frost. She also studied under W. H. Auden at Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York City in 1955.
She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at Ohio University, where in 1965 she completed her M.A. in creative writing and poetry. She divorced in 1968, the same year that while an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, she met Leonard Wallace Robinson. He was a writer for The New Yorker and a fiction editor and book editor at Esquire Magazine. They married in 1971. The couple later moved to San Miguel de Allende in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, where she taught creative writing at the Universidad de Guanajuato. Goedicke and Robinson returned to the United States in 1981, and she became professor at the University of Montana, where she taught until her retirement in 2003.
Her awards and honors include the Rockefeller Foundation Residency at its Villa Serbelloni; a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; a Pushcart Prize; the William Carlos Williams Prize; the 1987 Carolyn Kizer Prize; the Hohenberg Award, and the 1992 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner. Her last book was recognized as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2000 by the American Library Association. The Tongues We Speak was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1990.
Goedicke died of pneumonia and a complication of lung cancer, at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Montana.
As the Earth Begins to End: New Poems, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
Invisible Horses, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1996)
Paul Bunyon's Bearskin, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1992)
The Tongues We Speak: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1989)
Listen, Love, poetry (Daleville: Barnwood, 1986)
The Wind of Our Going, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1985)
Crossing the Same River, poetry (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)
The Dog That Was Barking Yesterday, poetry (Amherst: Lynx, 1980)
The Trail That Turns on Itself, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1978)
For the Four Corners, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1976)
Between Oceans, poetry (San Diego: Harcourt, 1968)
CHRIS ACROSS AMERICA: FreeRunning through every state in the USA
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A road trip through all 50 states in the USA.
America is truly a beautiful country. Every state unique. Every state with something truly special. I tried to visit some of the most iconic places in each state, but throughout my journey, I found that the most amazing things were actually the people I met a long the way.
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Itinerary:
ALABAMA - U.S. Space & Rocket Center
ALASKA - Mt. McKinley
ARIZONA - Grand Canyon
ARKANSAS - Forrest city
CALIFORNIA - Los Angeles
COLORADO - Great Sand Dunes National Park
CONNECTICUT - The University of Bridgeport
DELAWARE - Nemours Mansion
FLORIDA - Walt Disney World
GEORGIA - Georgia Aquarium
HAWAII - Lanikai Beach
IDAHO - Wallace Silver mining country
ILLINOIS - Chicago's Millenium Park
INDIANA - Indy 500
IOWA - Field of Dreams
KANSAS - The Flint Hills
KENTUCKY - Kentucky Derby
LOUISIANA - New Orleans
MAINE - Portland Head Lighthouse Cape Elizabeth
MARYLAND - Gaylord Convention Center
MASSACHUSETTS - Boston
MICHIGAN - Lake Michigan
MINNESOTA - Mall of America
MISSISSIPPI - Riverboat on the Mississippi River
MISSOURI - St. Louis Arch
MONTANA - Glacier National Park
NEBRASKA - Chimney Rock
NEVADA - Las Vegas
NEW HAMPSHIRE - The Washington Resort
NEW JERSEY - The Jersey Turnpike
NEW MEXICO - Chaco Canyon
NEW YORK - Times Square
NORTH CAROLINA - Kitty Hawk
NORTH DAKOTA - Rugby
OHIO - Longaberger Basket
OKLAHOMA - Oklahoma City Memorial
OREGON - The Lan Su Yuan
PENNSYLVANIA - Independence Hall
RHODE ISLAND - Newport
SOUTH CAROLINA - Black Water Swamp
SOUTH DAKOTA - Mt. Rushmore
TENNESSEE - Graceland
TEXAS - The Alamo
UTAH - Arches National Park
VERMONT - State House
VIRGINIA - Luray Caverns
WASHINGTON - Seattle Space Needle
WEST VIRGINIA - New River Gorge Bridge
WISCONSIN - Green Bay Packers Stadium
WYOMING - Yellowstone National Park
WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Capitol
#39 Kimberly Grey, Molly McCully Brown, Alexandra Teague
Molly McCully Brown is the author of the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, and a collection of essays forthcoming from Persea Books. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the co-author of the collection In the Field Between Us (forthcoming from Persea Books, 2020). New work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Tin House, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, and The New York Times. She is a 2018 United States Artists Fellow and the 2018-2019 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.
Alexandra Teague is the author of Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019), and two prior books of poetry—The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography, winner of Persea’s 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the 2010 California Book Award—as well as the novel The Principles Behind Flotation. She is also co-editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former Stegner Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Alexandra teaches in the MFA program at University of Idaho and is currently on sabbatical in Wales.
Kimberly Grey is an American poet and essayist. Her first book, The Opposite of Light, received the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was published by Persea Books. Her second book, Systems for the Future of Feeling, is forthcoming in 2020. She’s been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a teaching lectureship from Stanford University, as well as a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Umbria, Italy. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Tin House, A Public Space, Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, PN Review (UK), among others. She is currently completing her PhD in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she also teaches.
An Evening of Poetry with Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead
We are pleased to present a special event featuring one of the most widely read poets of our time, Billy Collins—author, most recently, of the book Horoscopes for the Dead, a smart, lyrical, funny and touching collection from America's most popular poet.
Billy Collins' poetry collections include, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, and The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems. He is editor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. Among his honors are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Award for humor in poetry. Collins has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and served as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past 30 years. In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003). In January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06.
2014 - Brave New Voices (Finals) - Somewhere in America by Los Angeles Team
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Brave New Voices 2014 features over 500 Teen Poetry Slam Champions from 50 parts of the country and 5 additional cities from across the globe, representing over 50,000 young poets in their local communities. These young writers are a diverse, creative, intelligent group of trendsetting community and cultural leaders. They come to Brave New Voices each year not only to compete, but also to attend world-class workshops led by renowned poets and writers, participate in youth development programs, and highlight the voices of a new generation of leadership.
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Caroline Kennedy Chosen As U S Ambassador To Japan By Obama
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated former first daughter Caroline Kennedy as U.S. ambassador to Japan, offering the most famous living member of a prominent American family a new role of service to country.The White House notified the Senate of the nomination and was planning to announce it later Wednesday, two people aware of the decision told The Associated Press on a condition of anonymity since they were not authorized to reveal it publicly ahead of the announcement.Kennedy, an attorney and bestselling book editor, is being rewarded for helping put Obama in the White House where her father served until his assassination 50 years ago. If confirmed, she would be the first woman in a post where many other prominent Americans have served to strengthen a vital Asian tie.
Kennedy helped propel Obama to the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination in a celebrated endorsement over Hillary Rodham Clinton -- the only time she's endorsed a presidential candidate other than her uncle Ted Kennedy in 1980. She played a prominent role, particularly in courting female voters by headlining swing state events for Obama in both his presidential campaigns.
She was a co-chair of Obama's vice presidential search committee and in the 2012 race served as one of 35 national co-chairs of his re-election campaign. She called Obama the kind of leader my father wrote about in `Profiles in Courage' during a prime-time speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.Japan is one of the United States' most important trading and military partners and accustomed since the end of World War II to having renowned American political leaders serve as envoy. Former U.S. ambassadors to Japan include former Vice President Walter Mondale, former House Speaker Tom Foley and former Senate Majority Leaders Mike Mansfield and Howard Baker.Kennedy doesn't have any obvious ties to Japan, a key ally in dealing with North Korea's nuclear ambitions. She would replace John Roos, a wealthy former Silicon Valley lawyer and top Obama campaign fundraiser.She also would bring a third generation of her family into the U.S. diplomatic corps. Her grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambassador to Britain, while her aunt Jean Kennedy Smith was ambassador to Ireland under President Bill Clinton.Caroline Kennedy was five days shy of her sixth birthday when her father was killed, and she lived most of the rest of her life in New York City. She married exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg, and they have three children. She has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, helped raise millions of dollars for New York schools and edited numerous bestselling books on history, law and poetry.
She considered running for political office after Clinton resigned the New York Senate seat to serve as Obama's secretary of state. But Kennedy eventually withdrew herself from consideration to fill the seat, once held by her uncle Robert F. Kennedy, citing unspecified personal reasons.
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Poet Elizabeth Alexander @ inauguration
Poet Elizabeth Alexander recites a poem in honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama.
First Lady Michelle Obama Appoints the 2015 National Student Poets
First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a reading and pinning ceremony of the Class of 2015 National Student Poets in the Blue Room of the White House on October 8, 2015. The National Student Poets Program is the country's highest honor for youth poets whose original work exhibits exceptional creativity, dedication to the craft, and promise.
To learn more, visit artandwriting.org/nspp
Photo by Patrick G. Ryan for the National Student Poets Program
Chris Aable - New York State Dance Song
Chris Aable grew up around big names in music. His father was a friend of Elvis Presley, born the same year & tiny town where both would sneak into State Fairs together. Chris's mother was a good friend of Johnny Horton's wife, who shared a wedding dress, now on Museum display. Chris's great uncle, Claude King, was a regular on the first musical TV Show, the Louisiana Hayride in the 50s and won two Grammy Awards in the 60s for songs in the Top 10.
Chris began writing songs on piano at age nine for his famous uncle and others. At age ten, Chris joined his school orchestra playing viola and violin. While in his teens he taught himself to play Saxophone and harp. He also played keyboards in a band called Pan (after the mythical god of music) playing for audiences as large as 50,000. His songs were later published by Heartwind Publications as a book of poetry entitled “Life Songs”, which made Chris the youngest poet listed in “Who's Who of North American Poets”.
Before going to college, Chris moved to L.A., produced a TV Pilot Americas Craziest Home Videos (Before America's Funniest Home Videos) and hosted his own TV Show Hollywood Today interviewing over 100 celebrities. He was in numerous commercials including a regular skit on The Movie Channel. He temporarily left acting and music in the 90s to attend college, earning degrees in Human Services, and a double major for his Master's in Psychology & Sociology. He was the first Graduate Professor to teach both Psychology and Sociology at CSULA.
Today, Chris Aable's focus is back on song writing a message of Self-Evolution-Peace, love and unity. Each of his over 100 songs demonstrate Chris' talent for unique lyrics, superior orchestration and highly diverse instrumentation. He is a long-time member of the Screen Actors Guild and American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
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Poetry Out Loud 2016 - Semifinal 1
0:00 - WELCOME - Eleanor Billington, NEA
4:47 - REMARKS - Stephen F. Schmidt, Host
ROUND 1
7:47 - Rose Horowitz - Maine - ''In the Basement of the Goodwill Store'' by Ted Kooser
10:44 - Maggie Fitzgerald - Vermont - ''Love Song'' by Dorothy Parker
13:07 - Celeste Sena - New Jersey - ''I’m a Fool to Love You'' by Cornelius Eady
15:59 - Sharese Acheampong - Maryland - ''It was not Death, for I stood up'' by Emily Dickinson
18:48 - Courtney Bryan Devon Stewart - Massachusetts - ''Life Cycle of Common Man'' by Howard Nemerov
22:55 - Danielle Corbett - New Hampshire - “Monet Refuses the Operation'' by Lisel Mueller
26:36 - Nicole Sadek - South Carolina - ''The Hospital Window'' by James L. Dickey
31:38 - Chiara M. Raimondo - New York - ''Bleeding Heart'' by Carmen Gimenez-Smith
35:40 - Thomas Ellison - Ohio - ''The Delta'' by Bruce Bond
39:16 - Austin Paulhus - Rhode Island - “The Obligation to Be Happy'' by Linda Pastan
41:02 - Neely Seams - West Virginia - “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg'' by Richard F. Hugo
44:48 - Jasmine Jackson - North Carolina - ''Obedience, or the Lying Tale'' by Jennifer Chang
48:17 - Irvin Mason, Jr. - United States Virgin Islands - “The Bones of My Father'' by Etheridge Knight
51:47 - Ahkei Togun - Virginia - “The Way It Sometimes Is” by Henry Taylor
54:15 - Emily L. Saunders - Connecticut - “a song in the front yard'' by Gwendolyn Brooks
56:27 - Greer LeRoy - Pennsylvania - “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats
59:10 - Hannah R. Sturgis - Delaware - ‘’Infelix'' by Adah Isaacs Menken
1:02:24 - Erica P. Jones - District of Columbia - “The Other Side of This World” by Calvin Forbes
ROUND 2
1:04:05 - Rose Horowitz - Maine - ''Mrs. Caldera's House of Things'' by Gregory Djanikian
1:07:41 - Maggie Fitzgerald - Vermont - ''The Nail'' by C.K. Williams
1:11:12 - Celeste Sena - New Jersey - ''La Figlia che Piange'' by T.S. Eliot
1:13:29 - Sharese Acheampong - Maryland - ''Make a Law so that the Spine Remembers Wings'' by Larry Levis
1:16:51 - Courtney Bryan Devon Stewart - Massachusetts - ''Memory As a Hearing Aid'' by Tony Hoagland
1:20:18 - Danielle Corbett - New Hampshire - ''Very Large Moth'' by Craig Arnold
1:22:36 - Nicole Sadek - South Carolina - ''Planetarium'' by Adrienne Rich
1:26:38 - Chiara M. Raimondo - New York - ''The Pulley'' by George Herbert
1:28:58 - Thomas Ellison - Ohio - ''Translations from the English'' by George Starbuck
1:32:25 - Austin Paulhus - Rhode Island - ''The Conqueror Worm'' by Edgar Allan Poe
1:34:31 - Neely Seams - West Virginia - ''Insomnia'' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1:36:46 - Jasmine Jackson - North Carolina - ''The Spider and the Fly'' by Mary Howitt
1:42:38 - Irvin Mason, Jr. - United States Virgin Islands - “Flounder'' by Natasha Trethewey
1:45:21 - Ahkei Togun - Virginia - “I’m a Fool to Love You” by Cornelius Eady
1:47:33 - Emily L. Saunders - Connecticut - ''The Children's Hour'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1:50:23 - Greer LeRoy - Pennsylvania - “The World is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth
1:52:07 - Hannah R. Sturgis - Delaware - ''Blackberrying'' by Sylvia Plath
1:55:20 - Erica P. Jones - District of Columbia - “From Space to Time” by Carolyn M. Rodgers
1:56:43 - AWARDS PRESENTATION
2:02:30 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF REGIONAL FINALISTS
ROUND 3
2:03:55 - Maggie Fitzgerald - Vermont - “A Hymn to God the Father” by John Donne
2:06:21 - Celeste Sena - New Jersey - “Invitation to Love” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
2:08:12 - Sharese Acheampong - Maryland - “Poem About People” by Robert Pinsky
2:12:19 - Chiara M. Raimondo - New York - “Passing” by Toi Derricotte
2:15:04 - Neely Seams - West Virginia - “Passing” by Toi Derricotte
2:17:16 - Ahkei Togun - Virginia - “Bereavement” by William Lisle Bowles
2:18:45 - Greer LeRoy - Pennsylvania - “Love Song” by Dorothy Parker
2:20:40 - Hannah R. Sturgis - Delaware - “El Olvido” by Judith Ortiz Cofer
2:22:46 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF NATIONAL FINALISTS
Philip Levine at the NYS Writers Institute in 1996 (Part 2)
Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. On August 10, 2011 he was appointed to serve as the Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011--2012.
Levine's poetry is grounded in the harsh reality of contemporary life. He describes his poetry as an attempt to create a voice for the voiceless. His acclaimed early volumes include Not This Pig (1968), They Feed They Lion (1972), Ashes (1979), which received the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and 7 Years From Somewhere (1979) which also received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He also has written The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), nine essays which focus on a particular person or place important in the author's life.
The President and First Lady at the White House Poetry Workshop
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama deliver remarks at the White House Poetry Workshop with Elizabeth Alexander. April 17, 2015.
Roosevelt Poetry Reading: Rootedness || Radcliffe Institute
Five poets read selected, multilingual works and participate in a moderated discussion about worlds reinvented and belonging reimagined.
Elisa Biagini, lecturer of writing, New York University Florence
Irène Gayraud, assistant professor of comparative literature, Sorbonne Université
Shara McCallum, liberal arts professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
Evie Shockley, 2018–2019 fellow, Radcliffe Institute, and associate professor of English, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Moderated by Elisa (Lisa) New, creator and host, Poetry in America; director, Verse Video Education; and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Introductions by
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Faculty Director of the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Marta Gentilucci, composer; 2018–2019 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
This event is part of the Roosevelt Poetry Readings at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Roosevelt Poetry Readings are made possible by a donation to help bring poets of recognized stature to the Institute.
For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit
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Washington Square Park - New York City, New York
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Mahalo travel expert Asha K. shares travel tips and information on Washington Square Park in New York City, New York.
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Washington Square Park lies over 9.75 acres in New York City's Greenwich Village at W 4th and MacDougal Streets. It is a great meeting place and center of cultural activity. The park was originally made famous by Henry James's novel Washington Square (1880).c
Nowadays, you will find
New York University students using the park as a de facto campus area, while chess players come out regularly to play their game on any one of the park's 19 concrete tables. Street performers are common, as are poetry readings.c
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Washington Square Park used to be a marsh located near the Native American village of Sapokanikan, or Tobacco Field. The Common Council received the land in 1797 with the intent to use it as a burial ground and a field to be used for public executions. This led to the tale of the Hangman's Elm, located in the northwest corner of the park.
In 1826, the park was used as the Washington Military Parade Ground, not becoming a public park until the following year. At the time, wealthy families moved into the area around the park, building the Greek Revival mansions that line the north side of Washington Square to this day.
Fifth Avenue ran through the park until
1964 when the entire site was redesigned and closed to traffic. A $900,000 renovation in 1995 installed bocce courts, game tables and playgrounds.c
Washington Square Arch
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The Washington Square Arch was based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. It was built out of wood in 1889 to commemorate the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration. It was rebuilt in marble between 1890 and 1892. Both versions were designed by architect Stanford White.
President Washington has two other tributes on the arch itself, both statues installed on the north face of the arch in 1918: Washington as Commander-in-Chief, Accompanied by Fame and Valor by Hermon MacNeil and Washington as President, Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice by Alexander Stirling Calder.
The arch is also a well-known landmark that has been used as a location in notable films like
When Harry Met Sally (1989), as well as television shows like Friends.
Outdoor Art
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Every Memorial and Labor Day weekend, Washington Square Park hosts a large art fair. The tradition was started in 1931 when acclaimed painter Jackson Pollock, in dire need of money to pay rent in his Greenwich Village studio, took several of his paintings and set them up for sale on a sidewalk near the park. He was soon joined by fellow artists and praised by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of Art, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art. That one act on Pollock's part has blossomed into the current Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, attracting artists from around the world twice a year.
Art exhibitors are chosen by a jury of fellow artists and cash prizes are awarded in various categories to exhibit winners.
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Halloween Parade
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Other special events include a Halloween Parade every October through the park. Known as New York's Village Halloween Parade, it was begun in 1973 by Ralph Lee, a mask maker and puppeteer from Greenwich Village. What began as a walk from house to house in his small neighborhood has grown exponentially to become one of the largest parades in the nation if not the world. Nearly 40 years after its inception, the parade draws over 60,000 participants dressed in costume and nearly 2 million spectators every year.
The parade has won an Obie Award and recognition by the Municipal Arts Society and Citylore for their contribution to the life and culture of New York City.
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Dog Lovers Delight
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There are two areas for dogs designated in the park, one for smaller breeds and one for larger. Extra lighting and the absence of any toxic plants make Washington Square Park a perfect place to walk your dog.
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Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Inaugural Reading
Tracy K. Smith gave her inaugural reading as the 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She was joined by National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who opened the event with an original poem.
Speaker Biography: Tracy K. Smith was born in Falmouth, Mass. in 1972 and raised in Fairfield, Calif. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Life on Mars, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Duende, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award and the 2008 Essence Literary Award; and The Body's Question, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction and selected as a Notable Book by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her fourth poetry collection, Wade in the Water, will be published in 2018.
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'9/11 was an inside job' - US poet
New York journalist and poet Jerry Mazza speaks with RT's Anastasia Churkina about 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan - and the effects they have had on the American psyche.