Frances Richey discusses her book of poetry, The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War, a personal exploration of the daily feelings a mother experiences while her child goes off to war.
Michelangelo La Luna reads the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio in Italian and gives an introductory lecture in English. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
J. Frederick Marchant presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Jill McDonough presents Amy Lowell; and Rosanna Warren presents Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Max Egremont shares selections from his new biography of the passionate, bisexual, WWI veteran, English anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Lawrence Joseph reads from his latest writings, including Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 and Into It. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Gail Mazur and other prominent poets gather here to remember Robert Lowell and to celebrate the publication of his Collected Poems. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Calhoun shows how Longfellow blended the Federalist politics and Unitarianism of his parents' generation with the German romanticism he discovered on his travels. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
David Ferry reads from his upcoming publication The Georgics of Virgil: A Translation and discusses his experiences in translation. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Edward Hirsch, poet and spreader of the gospel of poetry, attempts to win some members of the Wellesley College community over to the poetry team. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Dana Gioba, an award-winning poet and educator, shares his wisdom on the importance of teaching poetry at the high school level. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Naomi Shihab Nye reads from her work, which includes 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Fuel, and Red Suitcase. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Four Latina poets, including Marjorie Agosin, read from their work and discuss language, memory and craft across generations. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Crystal Johnson performs her poem, Millennium Blues, featured at the ACLU forum on Disproportionate Minority Confinement. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Barth reads four poems of Francis Thompson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. to support the John J. Burns Library at Boston College. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Nikki Giovanni reads and discusses excerpts from her latest book, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Billy Collins, our eleventh poet laureate reads from his work about "all manner of ordinary things and situations with both humor and a surprising contemplative twist." (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Harper reads his poetry which, with its variations on a theme and its improvisational feel, reflects the influences of jazz and the blues. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Alfred Habegger sheds a different light on Emily Dickinson in his new biography that poses provocative questions about her. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Live speech by President Kennedy at the 1963 Amherst College Convocation and Ground Breaking for the Robert Frost Library. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
From the WGBH Archives we bring you a series of 12 original radio essays by leading thinkers in the 20th Century on the nature of creativeness in American arts, sciences, and professions. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
From the WGBH Archives we bring you a series of 12 original radio essays by leading thinkers in the 20th Century on the nature of creativeness in American arts, sciences, and professions. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Antonio Morena reads the 13th canto of Dante's Purgatorio. His commentary is in English but the reading from the Divine Comedy is in Italian. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Francesco Castellan reads the seventh canto of Dante's Purgatorio in Italian. Beforehand, in English, he analyzes the canto and its position within the larger work. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Dana Gioia revisits the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with an eye towards the insights it holds for the 21st century reader. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Colleen G. Boggs discusses how Longfellow's efforts as an author and teacher introduced modern European languages into American higher education. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Charles Calhoun describes Longfellow's Craigie House, where on any evening you might have met Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickens, and numerous other luminaries. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
Robert Pinsky discusses his collaboration on an opera, Death and the Powers, with Tod Machover of the MIT Media Lab, and his other pet projects. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
David Ferry reads from his upcoming publication The Georgics of Virgil: A Translation and discusses his experiences in translation. (Lecture contributed by WGBH)
