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Multitudes
It’s difficult to overstate the impact that Walt Whitman has had on American poetry. This short explores eight segments of Whitman’s central poem, “Song of Myself,” featuring readings by three contemporary poets—Kaveh Akbar, Duriel E....
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“From the Inside” by Nkosi Nkululeko
Filmed on location at Sister’s Uptown Bookstore in Harlem, this moving meditation reveals the tangled strands of personal identity that emerge from literature and repetitive thought patterns. WORD: COLLECTED POETRY is a video anthology...
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"band-aids & other temporary healings" by Trace DePass
Filmed on location at Kenkeleba House Garden in the East Village, this poignant film contemplates how poetry can entrap, rather than release, past traumas and hardships. WORD: COLLECTED POETRY is a video anthology of spoken word poems...
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Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
In this startling animation of Muriel Rukeyser’s “Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars),” two lives unfold in split screen, one during the tumultuous world events of 1968, the other 50 years later against a new landscape of...
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“Rule #1” by Esther Aloba
In this moving meditation, author Esther Aloba contemplates sexuality, queerness, loss, and resilience in the aftermath of a relationship. WORD: COLLECTED POETRY is a video anthology of spoken word poems brought to life, adapted from the...
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“Untitled” by Makayla Posley
Filmed on location at East Side Community High School Manhattan, this moving film follows author Makayla Posley as she confronts the dehumanization of inequality and the school-to-prison pipeline. WORD: COLLECTED POETRY is a video...
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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 1
Ratso meets fiction friend Paul Durica. Paul is the fiction editor of Chicago Review! They talk about writing and fiction and stories and stuff. Stories are great! Do you know the Muffin Man? Chic-A-Go-Go: Show #679.
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Joseph Bruchac
Author, storyteller, and musician Joseph Bruchac plays an Abenaki recorder. Along with poet Allison Hedge Coke, Bruchac co-curated "Native Innovation: Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century," a symposium hosted at New York City's...
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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 2
Ratso meets printer Joseph Lappie. Joseph uses letterpresses to spell anything. He uses furniture to print! And computers! Chic-A-Go-Go: Show #679.
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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 4
Ratso meets silk screen printer David Jones from Anchor Graphics. David is making Fidel Castro posters! He uses goopy emulsion. So where's the silk?
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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 5
Ratso meets paper maker Jen Thomas. Jen is making paper! She swishes around goopy stuff and wiggles it and squishes out water and it comes off as a piece of paper! Chic-A-Go-Go: Show #679.
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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 3
Ratso meets new friend Brad Freeman, editor of JAB, and book maker Clif Meador. They're making books with a Heidelberg offset press! Who's Heidelberg? Chic-A-Go-Go: Show #679.
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats
Read by Samantha Kyrkostas and Dr. Charles A. "Dockie" Schlegel
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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 6
Ratso meets bookbinder Stephen DeSantis making featherproof books. What's a featherproof book? It's a book you can make yourself! He printed pages from a computer and folded and stapled them and made a book! It's not dangerous at all!...
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: Rahm Emanuel
Mayor Emanuel Reads "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg.
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: "Since There is No Help" by Michael Drayton
Read by Kurt Sepmeier.
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Favorite Poem Project: Chicago
Robert Polito and Robert Pinsky introduce the Favorite Poem Project: Chicago.
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
Read by Tom Moran.
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2021 Pegasus Awards
Welcome to the 2021 Pegasus Awards Ceremony, celebrating this year’s winners of the Poetry Foundation’s annual awards! Tonight we are honoring Patricia Smith as winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Susan Briante as winner of the...
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José Olivarez reads “Como Tú” (“Like You”)
José Olivarez reads the Roque Dalton poem, “Como Tú”. Turn captions on for the English translation.
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Andy Powell reads "My Heart Is A Public Park"
Andy Powell (he/him/his) reads his poem, “My Heart Is A Public Park
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Jonny Sun reads "I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store"
Jonny Sun reads a poem by Eve L. Ewing, imagining what Emmett Till would have been like if he had lived to become an old man living an ordinary life.
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Sasha Banks reads "uhmareka, post collapse: three"
Sasha Banks (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "uhmareka, post collapse: three