Poetry

In this program, Gamoneda describes his genesis as a poet, shaped by a childhood of poverty and traumatization by the horrors of the Spanish Civil War; his perception of the radicalizing and revelatory nature and limited influence of poetry; and the relationship he perceives between poetry and music.

This eight-part series crosses the lines of race, gender, and culture to reveal, and revel in, the beauty and power of modern American poetry.

This program showcases more than 130 of the world’s best-known poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted. Featuring Claire Bloom, LeVar Burton, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, Henry Fonda, Will Geer, Fred Gwynne, Valerie Harper, Jack Lemmon, Vincent Price, William Shatner, Irene Worth, and others.

Tour the England of Shakespeare from his early years in Stratford, through to his career as a playwright and an actor in London.

The Poetry Foundation works to raise poetry to a more visible and influential position in American culture.

Nonprofit serving creative writers

Essays, criticism and reviews, and thematic issues, on aspects of Victorian poetry.