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Harry Reid Cowboy Poetry

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:33:09 +0000

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid demonstrates just how serious democrats are about curbing federal spending. Duration : 0:0:19 [youtube hsDwEUJPlSU]

Lucille Clifton Reading in the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival Saturday Night Sampler – 9/27/08

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:47:07 +0000

“report from the angel of eden,” and “sorrow song” Duration : 0:4:15 [youtube 6PRHqylG2ic]

Three Poems by Billy Collins (2007)

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:24:03 +0000

Three poems from the former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Hosted by the Aspen Institute, the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, http://www.aifestival.org, offers its participants a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, and discussion events that together charged the town of Aspen with vibrant intellectual exchange. Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business [...]

Maxine Kumin Reading in the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival Saturday Night Sampler – 9/27/08

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:19:56 +0000

“Seven Caveats in May,” “The Apparition,” and “The Sunday Phone Call” Duration : 0:7:19 [youtube N3AKE6IV5lU]

Buy Me!

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:25:04 +0000

My poetry book is now on Amazon and I opened a Cafe Press store – Also: more vegetable videos on the way soon. Saving up for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival show now! Here’s my Amazon store http://eliseharris.com/amazon.html Cafe Press Store http://eliseharris.com/littleshop.html or if you prefer go straight to Amazon and do a search for ISBN [...]

Tony Hoagland reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:31:20 +0000

“Romantic Moment” Duration : 0:2:47 [youtube BSDh01zwed0]

Jane Hirshfield – 2009 National Book Festival

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:47:13 +0000

Jane Hirshfield, author of six collections of poetry appears at the National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: Jane Hirshfield is the author of six collections of poetry, including “After” (which was chosen as one of the best books of 2006 by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the London Financial Times). Hirshfield’s other honors include the poetry Center Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and “The (London) Times Literary Supplement.” She has been featured many times on Garrison Keillor’s “Writers Almanac” radio program. In 2004 Jane Hirshfield was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Elizabeth Bishop.

Duration : 0:14:17

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