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Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, junkie, genius, influential postmodern author and subject of films, biographies and stage performances is the star of his own convoluted life.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Elisa New talks with Mark Doty, Steven Pinker, Bill T. Jones, Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler about “THIS YOUR HOME NOW,” where a visit to the barber shop sparks a meditation on love, the AIDS crisis, and the satisfactions of getting older.
4) The Fish
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An exploration of Marianne Moore’s great poem of marine life. Guests Al Gore, Jorie Graham, and scientists from Conservation International dive into her portrayal of the ocean’s always-changing history, and its future in a warming world.
5) Whitman
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. Guests Elena Kagan, Tony Kushner, Mark Doty, Marilyn Chin, and a group of National Student Poets discuss Whitman’s powerful and timeless work.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Explore San Francisco's history, from the Gold Rush and early Chinese immigration to the rise of Silicon Valley, through Marilyn Chin's poem of her San Francisco youth. Guests include Maxine Hong Kingston, Randy Komisar and local residents.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Stephen Sondheim is widely hailed as the greatest modern American musical theater composer. Elisa New speaks with Broadway stage actors and Adam Gopnik to explore Sondheim’s singular ability to blend lyrics and music.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (206 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In the second season of Poetry in America, guests join Elisa New to discuss the poems of Marilyn Chin, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Sondheim, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Yusef Komunyakaa went to Vietnam as a journalist but came home a poet. John Kerry, Julie Taymor, Elliot Goldenthal, a chorus of veterans and Komunyakaa himself discuss the beauty and horror of war – and the challenge of making art of it.
10) One Art
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Guests including Katie Couric, Sheryl Sandberg, Yang Lan, Mary Chapin Carpenter and others discuss Elizabeth Bishop’s masterpiece on losses, great and small.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1963. One of the 20th century's finest poets, Robert Frost, was nearing the end of his life when WGBH asked Shirley Clarke to film a documentary about him. The two rebels got along famously – other had grown up in cities but had a love for nature. Frost's poems were often direct and economic depictions of rural life cloaked in the colloquialisms of his beloved New England. Using intricately...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Join John Hodgman, Rafael Campo, Jane Hirshfield, a chorus of couples and host Elisa New as they consider what may or may not lie beneath the surface of William Carlos Williams’s brief tribute to marital relations.
13) Benediction
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The story of decorated WW1 hero and renowned British poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), who became one of the “Bright Young Things” of London society in the 1920s. Haunted by war and put off by the decadent behavior of his contemporaries including renowned composer Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), he remained determined that the legacy of the young men with whom he served would not be forgotten.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial living poets. He is not only a great poet – one that has captured his work on paper, on the Chilean geography, and even on his body – but also a rocker, a human rights activist, a public figure, and a tireless struggler. The film is an account of his experiences during his travels and his daily life, as he reflects on topics such as state terrorism and death.
15) The Minister
Publisher
Cineflix
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (404 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Politician. Poet. Prime Minister? Some have labelled Benedikt Ríkardsson an unorthodox radical; he calls himself an honest citizen of Iceland. Radical or righteous? One thing is for sure, he will be a leader unlike any we’ve ever seen before.
16) Summertime
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Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver- they all weave in and out of eachother's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
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